美國模式培養(yǎng)物集存庫(American type culture collection)即ATCC  www.atcc.org
ATCC成立于1925年，是世界上最大的生物資源中心，由美國14家生化、醫(yī)學類行業(yè)協(xié)會組成的理事會負責管理，是一家全球性、非盈利生物標準品資源中心。ATCC向全球發(fā)布其獲取、鑒定、保存及開發(fā)的生物標準品，推動科學研究的驗證、應(yīng)用及進步。
目前，ATCC可以提供以下類別生物標準品：細胞株（3000多種）；菌株（15000多種）；動植物病毒株（2500多種）以及重組物質(zhì)等。

美國模式培養(yǎng)物集存庫(American type culture collection)即ATCC,于1925年組建,現(xiàn)已成為可信賴的活體微生物、細胞系等獲得、保存和發(fā)放的國家資源中心。目前,ATCC有29,000多種不同品系可靠的動物細胞和微生物培養(yǎng)體,它能滿足各科學團體對可信賴品系的需要。僅1981年就有39,000多培養(yǎng)物發(fā)放給全世界的科學工作者,并成功地用冷凍和冷凍干燥的方法保存各種細胞品系。 ATCC是一個非官方(學會單位)無利潤的公司,由各科學組織推選成員組成理事會進行管理。現(xiàn)有工作人員125人。參加的科學團體有:美國免疫協(xié)會、美國生物化學會、美國細胞生物學會、美國微生物學會、美國動物學會、美國遺傳學會、原生動物學會和組織培養(yǎng)協(xié)會等16個學術(shù)組織。在ATCC可利用各種材料以及工具和設(shè)備進行廣泛的研究。主要研究項目有:酶聯(lián)免疫吸附分析技術(shù)(ELISA),真核細胞轉(zhuǎn)錄的調(diào)控,雜交瘤、淋巴類和髓類以及其他細胞系的建立,人突變細胞系的基因蛋白質(zhì),借助計算機進行鑒別分析,培養(yǎng)物的特征鑒別和保存技術(shù)的改進,關(guān)于化學致癌、致畸和致突變的

ATCC is a private, nonprofit biological resource center (BRC) and research organization whose mission focuses on the acquisition, authentication, production, preservation, development and distribution of standard reference microorganisms, cell lines and other materials for research in the life sciences.
History
ATCC was established in 1925 when a committee of scientists recognized a need for a central collection of microorganisms that would serve scientists all over the world. The early years were spent at the McCormick Institute in Chicago until the organization moved to Georgetown University in Washington, DC in 1937. As research in the biosciences expanded, ATCC began to diversify its holdings, and as the collections grew ATCC occupied a series of sites, each providing more storage space. ATCC moved to its current state-of-the-art building in 1998.
Facilities
ATCC activities are housed in a Manassas, Virginia facility. The 126,000 sq. ft. building is monitored constantly by on-site security staff, and electric power is backed up by on-site generators. The repository portion of the facility occupies 18,000 sq. ft. and contains 200 freezers to store biomaterials, including vapor-phase liquid nitrogen freezers, mechanical freezers and cold rooms. The repository space is complemented by 35,000 sq. ft. of laboratory space.
User Communities
The community of users of ATCC products and services is international, and includes researchers in academia and government, as well as private industry. Over 80% of ATCC’s customer base represents academia and industry – about 40% each from universities and private industry. Government customers comprise 6% of the organization’s total. Three-quarters of ATCC customers hail from the U.S., while the remaining 25% are international customers. ATCC maintains a network of authorized distributors around the world. Among the industries represented in ATCC’s customer base are the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, agricultural and diagnostics industries, as well as food, beverage and cosmetics makers and reference and testing laboratories, among others.
Collection Holdings
ATCC’s collections include a wide range of biological materials for research, including cell lines, molecular genomics tools, microorganisms and bioproducts. The organization holds a collection of more than 3,400 human, animal and plant cell lines. The molecular genomics collection at ATCC contains 8 million cloned genes from a host of species, including human, mouse, soybean, rat, monkey, zebrafish and several disease vectors. ATCC’s microorganism collection includes more than 18,000 strains of bacteria, 2,000 different types of animal viruses and 1,000 plant viruses. In addition, ATCC maintains collections of protozoans, yeasts and fungi with over 49,000 yeast and fungi strains and 2,000 strains of protists.
 
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