Amyloid oligomers: A joint experimental/computational perspective on Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, type II diabetes, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

PH Nguyen, A Ramamoorthy, BR Sahoo… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Protein misfolding and aggregation is observed in many amyloidogenic diseases affecting
either the central nervous system or a variety of peripheral tissues. Structural and dynamic …

The lipid composition of extracellular vesicles: applications in diagnostics and therapeutic delivery

S Ghadami, K Dellinger - Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Extracellular vesicles (EVs), including exosomes, with nanoscale sizes, biological origins,
various functions, and unique lipid and protein compositions have been introduced as …

Revisiting the grammar of Tau aggregation and pathology formation: how new insights from brain pathology are sha** how we study and target Tauopathies

G Limorenko, HA Lashuel - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Converging evidence continues to point towards Tau aggregation and pathology formation
as central events in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease and other Tauopathies …

Mechanisms of secretion and spreading of pathological tau protein

CA Brunello, M Merezhko, RL Uronen… - Cellular and Molecular …, 2020 - Springer
Accumulation of misfolded and aggregated forms of tau protein in the brain is a
neuropathological hallmark of tauopathies, such as Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal …

[HTML][HTML] Compromised function of the ESCRT pathway promotes endolysosomal escape of tau seeds and propagation of tau aggregation

JJ Chen, DL Nathaniel, P Raghavan, M Nelson… - Journal of Biological …, 2019 - Elsevier
Intercellular propagation of protein aggregation is emerging as a key mechanism in the
progression of several neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease and …

Membrane-induced tau amyloid fibrils

N El Mammeri, O Gampp, P Duan, M Hong - Communications Biology, 2023 - nature.com
The intrinsically disordered protein tau aggregates into β-sheet amyloid fibrils that spread in
human brains afflicted with Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative diseases. Tau …

[HTML][HTML] Microglia in Alzheimer's disease in the context of tau pathology

JR Perea, M Bolós, J Avila - Biomolecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
Microglia are the cells that comprise the innate immune system in the brain. First described
more than a century ago, these cells were initially assigned a secondary role in the central …

Much more than a cytoskeletal protein: physiological and pathological functions of the non-microtubule binding region of tau

R Brandt, NI Trushina, L Bakota - Frontiers in Neurology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Tau protein (MAPT) is classified as a microtubule-associated protein (MAP) and is believed
to regulate the axonal microtubule arrangement. It belongs to the tau/MAP2/MAP4 family of …

Site‐specific hyperphosphorylation inhibits, rather than promotes, tau fibrillization, seeding capacity, and its microtubule binding

M Haj‐Yahya, P Gopinath, K Rajasekhar… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The consistent observation of phosphorylated tau in the pathology of Alzheimer's disease
has contributed to the emergence of a model where hyperphosphorylation triggers both tau …

Tau and membranes: interactions that promote folding and condensation

CA Sallaberry, BJ Voss, J Majewski… - Frontiers in cell and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Tau misfolding and assembly is linked to a number of neurodegenerative diseases
collectively described as tauopathies, including Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkinson's …