Blood phospho-tau in Alzheimer disease: analysis, interpretation, and clinical utility

TK Karikari, NJ Ashton, G Brinkmalm… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Well-authenticated biomarkers can provide critical insights into the biological basis of
Alzheimer disease (AD) to enable timely and accurate diagnosis, estimate future burden and …

Tau in physiology and pathology

Y Wang, E Mandelkow - Nature reviews neuroscience, 2016 - nature.com
Tau is a microtubule-associated protein that has a role in stabilizing neuronal microtubules
and thus in promoting axonal outgrowth. Structurally, tau is a natively unfolded protein, is …

A new era for understanding amyloid structures and disease

MG Iadanza, MP Jackson, EW Hewitt… - … reviews Molecular cell …, 2018 - nature.com
The aggregation of proteins into amyloid fibrils and their deposition into plaques and
intracellular inclusions is the hallmark of amyloid disease. The accumulation and deposition …

History and progress of hypotheses and clinical trials for Alzheimer's disease

PP Liu, Y **e, XY Meng, JS Kang - Signal transduction and targeted …, 2019 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by progressive
memory loss along with neuropsychiatric symptoms and a decline in activities of daily life. Its …

[HTML][HTML] Reconsideration of amyloid hypothesis and tau hypothesis in Alzheimer's disease

F Kametani, M Hasegawa - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The so-called amyloid hypothesis, that the accumulation and deposition of oligomeric or
fibrillar amyloid β (Aβ) peptide is the primary cause of Alzheimer's disease (AD), has been …

Molecular pathology of neurodegenerative diseases by cryo-EM of amyloids

SHW Scheres, B Ryskeldi-Falcon, M Goedert - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Abnormal assembly of tau, α-synuclein, TDP-43 and amyloid-β proteins into amyloid
filaments defines most human neurodegenerative diseases. Genetics provides a direct link …

Assembly of recombinant tau into filaments identical to those of Alzheimer's disease and chronic traumatic encephalopathy

S Lövestam, FA Koh, B van Knippenberg, A Kotecha… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Abundant filamentous inclusions of tau are characteristic of more than 20
neurodegenerative diseases that are collectively termed tauopathies. Electron cryo …

Roles of tau protein in health and disease

T Guo, W Noble, DP Hanger - Acta neuropathologica, 2017 - Springer
Tau is well established as a microtubule-associated protein in neurons. However, under
pathological conditions, aberrant assembly of tau into insoluble aggregates is accompanied …

Novel tau biomarkers phosphorylated at T181, T217 or T231 rise in the initial stages of the preclinical Alzheimer's continuum when only subtle changes in Aβ …

M Suárez‐Calvet, TK Karikari, NJ Ashton… - EMBO molecular …, 2020 - embopress.org
In Alzheimer's disease (AD), tau phosphorylation in the brain and its subsequent release
into cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and blood is a dynamic process that changes during disease …

Multiple isoforms of human microtubule-associated protein tau: sequences and localization in neurofibrillary tangles of Alzheimer's disease

M Goedert, MG Spillantini, R Jakes, D Rutherford… - Neuron, 1989 - cell.com
We have determined the sequences of isoforms of human tau protein, which differ from
previously reported forms by insertions of 29 or 58 amino acids in the amino-terminal region …