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MDA-MB-435HGF

Cancer cell line, Homo sapiens. Amelanotic melanoma. Cellosaurus records it as contaminated. 2 papers.

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ConductScience Library. MDA-MB-435HGF. Cell lines, record CVCL_6684. Release cell-lines-2026-11-14-0.1.0, 14 Nov 2026. https://conductscience.org/library/cell-lines/CVCL_6684

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Cell line

As Cellosaurus gives it.

Name
MDA-MB-435HGF
Accession
CVCL_6684
RRID
RRID:CVCL_6684
Synonyms
MDA-MB-435-HGF, MDA-MB-435 HGF, MDAMB-435-HGF, MDA-MB-HGF, HGF1
Species
Homo sapiens (Human)
Sex
Male
Age at sampling
33Y
Category
Cancer cell line
Diseases
Amelanotic melanoma (NCIt C3802)
Derived from
Right buttock, hypodermis (metastatic)
Parent
MDA-MB-435S/1 (CVCL_A6LJ)
Entry created
2012-04-04
Entry updated
2025-08-14

Source Cellosaurus

Problems1

ProblemCellosaurus's note
ContaminatedAncestral cell line (MDA-MB-435) has been shown to be a M14 derivative.

Papers2

PaperJournalYearHow we knowRetractedSource
Further evidence to support the melanocytic origin of MDA-MB-435.Mol Pathol2002Cellosaurus cites itPubMed
Role of morphogenetic factors in metastasis of mammary carcinoma cells.Oncogene1998Cellosaurus cites itPubMed

Relatives1

RelationCell lineAccessionProblem
ParentMDA-MB-435S/1CVCL_A6LJHas a recorded problem

Source Cell lines

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None in this release.

Data dates

The date of each source this release read.

Cellosaurus
2026-10-22
Cellosaurus
PubMed Central's articles
2026-11-12
PubMed Central's articles
Our copy of PubMed
2026-11-06
Our copy of PubMed

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  • PubMed Central's articlesEach article's own license. Its words show only under CC0, CC BY or public domain
  • NLM's PMC Article DatasetsNLM's PMC Article Datasets on AWS, https://registry.opendata.aws/ncbi-pmc. Its terms: users "acknowledge NLM as the source of the data in a clear and conspicuous manner", do not use the PubMed Central wordmark or the PMC logo, do not "indicate or imply that NLM/NIH/HHS has endorsed" a product, and "only distribute data that are licensed for redistribution". Each article keeps its own license: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/about/copyright/
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Cellosaurus, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, https://www.cellosaurus.org, CC BY 4.0. Its problem notes are given in its own words.

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GET https://conductscience.org/api/cell-lines/v1/CVCL_6684/problems