Li-Chieh Lin1, Osama Elkashty1,2, Murali Ramamoorthi1, Nathalie Trinh1, Younan Liu1, Gulshan Sunavala-Dossabhoy3, Thomas Pranzatelli4, Drew G Michael4, Clara Chivasso5, Jason Perret5, John A Chiorini4, Christine Delporte5, Simon D Tran1. 1. McGill Craniofacial Tissue Engineering and Stem Cells Laboratory, Faculty of Dentistry, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada. 2. Oral Pathology Department, Faculty of Dentistry, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt. 3. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Health Sciences Center-Shreveport, Louisiana State University, Shreveport, Louisiana. 4. National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland. 5. Laboratory of Pathophysiological and Nutritional Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: The human salivary gland (HSG) cell line, labeled as a submandibular ductal cell line, is commonly used as in vitro models to study radiation therapy, Sjögren's syndrome, pleomorphic adenoma, mucocele, epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition, and epigenetics. However, the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) has recently released a list of cross-contaminated cell lines that included HSG. Despite this notice, some research laboratories still use HSG as a salivary cell model. Therefore, this study examined the authenticity of HSG sampled from three different laboratories. METHODS: DNA was extracted from HSG and additional salivary cell lines (NS-SV-AC, NS-SV-DC, A253, HSY) and submitted for cell line authentication with short tandem repeat (STR) analysis. RESULTS: All HSG samples had STR profiles indicating >80% match with HeLa in both the ATCC and Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen (DSMZ) databases. This confirmed that HSG sampled from three different laboratories and HSY shared a common ancestry (host) with HeLa, whereas NS-SV-AC, NS-SV-DC, and A253 had unique STR profiles. CONCLUSION: Short tandem repeat analysis revealed that HSG was contaminated by the HeLa cell line. Furthermore, because genotyping of the original HSG cell line was not performed during its establishment, it will be difficult to authenticate an uncontaminated sample of HSG.
OBJECTIVES: The human salivary gland (HSG) cell line, labeled as a submandibular ductal cell line, is commonly used as in vitro models to study radiation therapy, Sjögren's syndrome, pleomorphic adenoma, mucocele, epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition, and epigenetics. However, the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) has recently released a list of cross-contaminated cell lines that included HSG. Despite this notice, some research laboratories still use HSG as a salivary cell model. Therefore, this study examined the authenticity of HSG sampled from three different laboratories. METHODS: DNA was extracted from HSG and additional salivary cell lines (NS-SV-AC, NS-SV-DC, A253, HSY) and submitted for cell line authentication with short tandem repeat (STR) analysis. RESULTS: All HSG samples had STR profiles indicating >80% match with HeLa in both the ATCC and Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen (DSMZ) databases. This confirmed that HSG sampled from three different laboratories and HSY shared a common ancestry (host) with HeLa, whereas NS-SV-AC, NS-SV-DC, and A253 had unique STR profiles. CONCLUSION: Short tandem repeat analysis revealed that HSG was contaminated by the HeLa cell line. Furthermore, because genotyping of the original HSG cell line was not performed during its establishment, it will be difficult to authenticate an uncontaminated sample of HSG.
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