Organism: Homo sapiens (human)
Age/Stage: 5 years
Gender: Male
Tissue: Spleen (Hereditary spherocytosis)
Growth Properties: Suspension
Description: The TK6 cell line has been derived from the WIL-2 cell line. TK6 cells are heterozygous at the thymidine kinase (TK) locus, are resistant to thioguanine (hprt locus) and to ouabain (Na/K ATPase?. They are useful in quantitatively detecting forward mutation at 3 loci (resistance to trifluorothymidine (tk locus).