We have tried to obtain a more mature phenotype from KU-812 for a couple of years, growing them in various combinations of cytokines, such as IL-3, IL-4, IL-5, GM-CSF, (list is incomplete) with our without Hydrocortisone, with and without human serum, in different combinations. Nothing worked for us, and we could never reproduce any of the findings published in the literature.
In the end we settled for humanised RBL cell lines which we further developed, and never looked back since.