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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Dec 24.
Published in final edited form as: Cell. 2009 Dec 24;139(7):1315–1326. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2009.11.025

Table 1. Tumor seeding activity of various carcinoma and melanoma cell lines.

The table indicates the type of cancer, the relationship, species, and name of the cell lines used as donor and recipient pairs, the tumor site (MFP: mammary fat pad, SubQ: subcutaneous), and the fraction of tumors that showed seeding as determined by BLI. MDA231-LM2, a lung metastatic derivative of MDA231; MCF7-BoM2, a bone-metastatic derivative of MCF7; CN34-BrM2, a brain-metastatic derivative of pleural effusion CN34; SW620-LM1, a lung-metastatic derivative of SW620; A375-BoM2, a bone metastatic derivative of A375. PyMT: cells derived from a mammary tumor developed in MMTV-PyMT transgenic mice.

Cancer Relationship Species Donor tumor Recipient tumor Site Seeding (%)

Breast Homotypic Human MDA231-LM2 MDA231-LM2 MFP 11/13 (85)
Breast Homotypic Human MDA231-LM2 MDA231 MFP 39/47 (83)

Breast Homotypic Mouse 4T1 4T1 MFP 3/5 (60)
Breast Homotypic Mouse 4T1 67NR MFP 11/11 (100)
Breast Homotypic Mouse PyMT PyMT endogenous Breast 8/11 (73)

Breast Heterotypic Human CN34-BrM2 MDA231 MFP 10/19 (53)
Breast Heterotypic Human MCF7-BoM2 MDA231 MFP 6/7 (86)
Breast Heterotypic Human MDA231-LM2 MCF7 MFP 7/7 (100)

Melanoma Homotypic Human A375-BoM2 A375 SubQ 8/11 (73)

Colon Homotypic Human SW620-LM1 SW620 SubQ 7/9 (77)