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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2015

Identification of TL-Om1, an adult T-cell leukemia (ATL) cell line, as reference material for quantitative PCR for human T-lymphotropic virus 1.

Madoka Kuramitsu, Kazu Okuma, Makoto Yamagishi, Tadanori Yamochi, Sanaz Firouzi, Haruka Momose, Takuo Mizukami, Kazuya Takizawa, Kumiko Araki, Kazuo Sugamura and 3 more

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Article in Journal of clinical microbiology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

27 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 35 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Madoka KuramitsuDepartment of Safety Research on Blood and Biological Products, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3064-5219
Kazu OkumaDepartment of Safety Research on Blood and Biological Products, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan.
Makoto YamagishiDepartment of Medical Genome Sciences, Laboratory of Tumor Cell Biology, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Tadanori YamochiDepartment of Medical Genome Sciences, Laboratory of Tumor Cell Biology, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Sanaz FirouziDepartment of Medical Genome Sciences, Laboratory of Tumor Cell Biology, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Haruka MomoseDepartment of Safety Research on Blood and Biological Products, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan.
Takuo MizukamiDepartment of Safety Research on Blood and Biological Products, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan.
Kazuya TakizawaDepartment of Safety Research on Blood and Biological Products, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan.
Kumiko ArakiDepartment of Safety Research on Blood and Biological Products, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan.
Kazuo SugamuraDivision of Molecular and Cellular Oncology, Miyagi Cancer Center Research Institute, Natori, Japan.
Kazunari YamaguchiDepartment of Safety Research on Blood and Biological Products, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan.
Toshiki WatanabeDepartment of Medical Genome Sciences, Laboratory of Tumor Cell Biology, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Isao HamaguchiDepartment of Safety Research on Blood and Biological Products, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan 130hama@niid.go.jp.
National Institute of Infectious Diseases · JPThe University of Tokyo · JPMiyagi Prefectural Hospital Organization · JP

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Quantitative PCR (qPCR) for human T-lymphotropic virus 1 (HTLV-1) is useful for measuring the amount of integrated HTLV-1 proviral DNA in peripheral blood mononuclear cells. Many laboratories in Japan have developed different HTLV-1 qPCR methods. However, when six independent laboratories analyzed the proviral load of the same samples, there was a 5-fold difference in their results. To standardize HTLV-1 qPCR, preparation of a well-defined reference material is needed. We analyzed the integrated HTLV-1 genome and the internal control (IC) genes of TL-Om1, a cell line derived from adult T-cell leukemia, to confirm its suitability as a reference material for HTLV-1 qPCR. Fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) showed that HTLV-1 provirus was monoclonally integrated in chromosome 1 at the site of 1p13 in the TL-Om1 genome. HTLV-1 proviral genome was not transferred from TL-Om1 to an uninfected T-cell line, suggesting that the HTLV-1 proviral copy number in TL-Om1 cells is stable. To determine the copy number of HTLV-1 provirus and IC genes in TL-Om1 cells, we used FISH, digital PCR, and qPCR. HTLV-1 copy numbers obtained by these three methods were similar, suggesting that their results were accurate. Also, the ratio of the copy number of HTLV-1 provirus to one of the IC genes, RNase P, was consistent for all three methods. These findings indicate that TL-Om1 cells are an appropriate reference material for HTLV-1 qPCR.

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Reference StandardsCell Line, TumorHumansHuman T-lymphotropic virus 1JapanProvirusesReal-Time Polymerase Chain ReactionViral Load

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PMID25502533
PMCPMC4298509
OpenAlexW2028067688

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