Experiments were performed on immortalized human foreskin fibroblasts (HFF2-hTERT) and two melanoma cell lines that do not express MAGEA1 (SK-MEL-23 and EB16-MEL), as well as on three melanoma cell lines that do express MAGEA1 (MZ2-MEL3.1, BB74-MEL and Mi13443-MEL). Here, MAGEA1 is linked to melanoma.