FGF2 and dual agonist of NCAM and FGF receptor 1, Enreptin, rescue neurite outgrowth loss in hippocampal neurons expressing mutated huntingtin proteins

Mirolyuba Ilieva, Troels T. Nielsen, Tanja Michel, Stanislava Pankratova

    Abstract

    In the present study, we developed an in vitro model of Huntington disease (HD) by transfecting primary rat hippocampal neurons with plasmids coding for m-htt exon 1 with different number of CAG repeats (18, 50 and 115) and demonstrated the influence of the length of polyQ sequence on neurite elongation. We found that exogenously applied FGF2 significantly rescued the m-htt-induced loss of neurite outgrowth. Moreover, the Enreptin peptide, an FGFR1 and NCAM dual agonist, had a similar neuritogenic effect to FGF2 in clinically relevant m-htt 50Q-expressing neurons. This study has developed an in vitro model of primary hippocampal neurons transfected with m-htt-coding vectors that is a powerful tool to study m-htt–related effects on neuronal placticity.

    Original languageEnglish
    JournalJournal of Neural Transmission
    Volume126
    Issue number11
    Pages (from-to)1493-1500
    Number of pages8
    ISSN0300-9564
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 1 Nov 2019

    Keywords

    • Huntington disease
    • Mutant huntingtin
    • FGF2
    • Enreptin
    • Neurite outgrowth
    • Hippocampal neurons

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