Review Article

Recent Trends in Detection of Huntingtin and Preclinical Models of Huntington’s Disease

Table 1

In vitro Huntington’s disease models.

Cell lineNumber of glutamines in the polyQ tractFull- length/truncated mutant proteinReporterReference

HEK-29382N-Terminal part of Htt protein with 171 amino acidsNone[14]

HeLa
A 459
Sh-SY5Y
128N-Terminal part of Htt protein with 171 amino acidsEnhanced green fluorescent protein[15]

Cos-7
SH-SY5Y
neuro-2A
49, 72, 151Full length of exon-1Enhanced green fluorescent protein[4]

HEK 29360, 150N-Terminal part of exon-1Enhanced green fluorescent protein[16]

PC-12103N-Terminal part of exon-1Ecdysone inducible system[17]

HEK 293
PC-12
150N-Terminal part of exon-1None[7]