Table 1 List of human tumour cell lines for CPP screening.

From: Tumour lineage-homing cell-penetrating peptides as anticancer molecular delivery systems

Cell line

Origin (histological type)

HeLa

Uterus (squamous cell carcinoma)

Lovo

Colon (adenocarcinoma)

A549

Lung (adenocarcinoma)

MCF-7

Breast (adenocarcinoma)

MKN45

Stomach (adenocarcinoma)

HepG2

Liver (hepatoblastoma)

LNCap

Prostate (adenocarcinoma)

KPK

Kidney (renal cell carcinoma)

U2OS

Bone (osteosarcoma)

RC-15

Skeletal muscle (rhabdomyosarcoma)

RD-ES

Undefined (Ewing's sarcoma)

H28

Pleura (mesothelioma)

K562

Haematopoietic (myelogenous leukaemia)

U251

Brain (glioblastoma)

NHDF

Non-neoplastic, normal human dermal fibroblast

  1. Fourteen tumour lines with different origins were employed, including carcinomas, sarcomas, leukaemias and a glioma. NHDF was added as a non-neoplastic counterpart.