[HTML][HTML] A current view on Tau protein phosphorylation in Alzheimer's disease

S Wegmann, J Biernat, E Mandelkow - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2021 - Elsevier
The functions of the neuronal microtubule-associated protein Tau in the central nervous
system are regulated by manifold posttranslational modifications at more than 50 sites. Tau …

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 …

Liquid-liquid phase separation induces pathogenic tau conformations in vitro

NM Kanaan, C Hamel, T Grabinski, B Combs - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Formation of membrane-less organelles via liquid-liquid phase separation is one way cells
meet the biological requirement for spatiotemporal regulation of cellular components and …

Tau protein liquid–liquid phase separation can initiate tau aggregation

S Wegmann, B Eftekharzadeh, K Tepper… - The EMBO …, 2018 - embopress.org
The transition between soluble intrinsically disordered tau protein and aggregated tau in
neurofibrillary tangles in Alzheimer's disease is unknown. Here, we propose that soluble tau …

Tau protein disrupts nucleocytoplasmic transport in Alzheimer's disease

B Eftekharzadeh, JG Daigle, LE Kapinos, A Coyne… - Neuron, 2018 - cell.com
Tau is the major constituent of neurofibrillary tangles in Alzheimer's disease (AD), but the
mechanism underlying tau-associated neural damage remains unclear. Here, we show that …

[HTML][HTML] Tau protein interaction partners and their roles in Alzheimer's disease and other tauopathies

J Sinsky, K Pichlerova, J Hanes - International journal of molecular …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Tau protein plays a critical role in the assembly, stabilization, and modulation of
microtubules, which are important for the normal function of neurons and the brain. In …

Unconventional secretion mediates the trans-cellular spreading of tau

T Katsinelos, M Zeitler, E Dimou, A Karakatsani… - Cell reports, 2018 - cell.com
The progressive deposition of misfolded hyperphosphorylated tau is a pathological hallmark
of tauopathies, including Alzheimer's disease. However, the underlying molecular …

Identification of the Tau phosphorylation pattern that drives its aggregation

C Despres, C Byrne, H Qi, FX Cantrelle… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - pnas.org
Determining the functional relationship between Tau phosphorylation and aggregation has
proven a challenge owing to the multiple potential phosphorylation sites and their clustering …

Microtubules gate tau condensation to spatially regulate microtubule functions

R Tan, AJ Lam, T Tan, J Han, DW Nowakowski… - Nature cell …, 2019 - nature.com
Tau is an abundant microtubule-associated protein in neurons. Tau aggregation into
insoluble fibrils is a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease and other types of dementia, yet the …

[HTML][HTML] Passive immunotherapies targeting Aβ and tau in Alzheimer's disease

SS Plotkin, NR Cashman - Neurobiology of Disease, 2020 - Elsevier
Amyloid-β (Aβ) and tau proteins currently represent the two most promising targets to treat
Alzheimer's disease. The most extensively developed method to treat the pathologic forms of …