The YUMM lines: a series of congenic mouse melanoma cell lines with defined genetic alterations

K Meeth, JX Wang, G Micevic… - Pigment cell & …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
K Meeth, JX Wang, G Micevic, W Damsky, MW Bosenberg
Pigment cell & melanoma research, 2016Wiley Online Library
The remarkable success of immune therapies emphasizes the need for immune‐competent
cancer models. Elegant genetically engineered mouse models of a variety of cancers have
been established, but their effective use is limited by cost and difficulties in rapidly
generating experimental data. Some mouse cancer cell lines are transplantable to
immunocompetent host mice and have been utilized extensively to study cancer
immunology. Here, we describe the Yale University Mouse Melanoma (YUMM) lines, a …
Summary
The remarkable success of immune therapies emphasizes the need for immune‐competent cancer models. Elegant genetically engineered mouse models of a variety of cancers have been established, but their effective use is limited by cost and difficulties in rapidly generating experimental data. Some mouse cancer cell lines are transplantable to immunocompetent host mice and have been utilized extensively to study cancer immunology. Here, we describe the Yale University Mouse Melanoma (YUMM) lines, a comprehensive system of mouse melanoma cell lines that are syngeneic to C57BL/6, have well‐defined human‐relevant driver mutations, and are genomically stable. This will be a useful tool for the study of tumor immunology and genotype‐specific cancer biology.
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