Established from the bone marrow of a 57-year-old woman with plasma cell leukemia (IgA1kappa) at diagnosis in 1987; JJN-3 is a subclone of the parental cell line JJN-1; plasma cell leukemia is related to multiple myeloma
Recommended Medium
40% DMEM + 40% IMDM + 20% h.i. FBS
Organism
Human
Morphology
single round to oval cells showing a morphological range from mononuclear to occasionally multinucleated cells growing in suspension
Culture Properties
suspension
Karyotype
Human flat-moded hypotriploid karyotype with 9% polyploidy - 58-67<3n>XX, +1, -2, +5, +8, +8, -9, -11, -12, -13, -15, -17, +20, add(1)(p22), der(1)t(1;?3)(q41;p26)x2, add(3)(p26), add(5)(p15)x1-2, i(5p), del(6)(q13),del(7)(q32), der(7)t(7;11)(q36;q13), ad