Tumour cells can escape antiproliferative pressure by interferon-β through immunoediting of interferon receptor expression

Table 1 Characteristics of studied cell lines

Cell line	Sex	Age	Primary tissue	Viral status	Cluster	Original publication (additional studies):	Year
PH5CH	M	58	Non-neoplastic hepatocytes	anti-HCV antibody	–	Noguchi and Hirohashi [45]	1996
PLC	M	24	Hepatoma	HBV DNA integrates HBsAg secretion	Epithelial-like	Alexander et al. [61] ([62,63,64])	1976
HuH1	M	53	Hepatoma	HBV DNA integrates HBsAg secretion	Epithelial-like	Huh et al.[62] ([63, 64])	1981
HuH6	M	1	Hepatoblastoma	None	Epithelial-like	Doi et al. [65] ([63, 64])	1976
HuH7	M	57	Well-differentiated HCC	None	Epithelial-like	Nakabayashi et al.[66] ([63, 64, 67, 68])	1982
HepG2	M	15	Hepatoblastoma	None	Epithelial-like	Aden et al.[69] ([63, 64, 67, 68])	1979
Hep3B	M	8	Differentiated HCC	HBV DNA integrates No HBsAg secretion	Epithelial-like	Aden et al.[69] ([63, 64, 67, 68])	1979
HLE	M	68	Undifferentiated HCC	None	Fibroblast-like	Doi et al.[70] ([63, 64, 68])	1975
HLF	M	68	Undifferentiated HCC	None	Fibroblast-like	Doi et al.[70] ([63, 64, 68])	1975
SNU182	M	24	HCC, grade III/IV	HBV DNA integrates No HBsAg secretion	Fibroblast-like	Park et al. [71] ([62,63,64])	1995
SNU387	F	41	HCC, grade III-IV/IV	HBV DNA integrates No HBsAg secretion	Fibroblast-like	Park et al. [71] ([62,63,64])	1995

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