Cellular and pathological functions of tau

C Parra Bravo, SA Naguib, L Gan - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2024 - nature.com
Tau protein is involved in various cellular processes, including having a canonical role in
binding and stabilization of microtubules in neurons. Tauopathies are neurodegenerative …

Tauopathies: new perspectives and challenges

Y Zhang, KM Wu, L Yang, Q Dong, JT Yu - Molecular neurodegeneration, 2022 - Springer
Background Tauopathies are a class of neurodegenerative disorders characterized by
neuronal and/or glial tau-positive inclusions. Main body Clinically, tauopathies can present …

Structure-based classification of tauopathies

Y Shi, W Zhang, Y Yang, AG Murzin, B Falcon… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The ordered assembly of tau protein into filaments characterizes several neurodegenerative
diseases, which are called tauopathies. It was previously reported that, by cryo-electron …

Cellular and pathological heterogeneity of primary tauopathies

DC Chung, S Roemer, L Petrucelli… - Molecular …, 2021 - Springer
Microtubule-associated protein tau is abnormally aggregated in neuronal and glial cells in a
range of neurodegenerative diseases that are collectively referred to as tauopathies …

CSF tau microtubule-binding region identifies pathological changes in primary tauopathies

K Horie, NR Barthélemy, S Spina, L VandeVrede… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Despite recent advances in fluid biomarker research in Alzheimer's disease (AD), there are
no fluid biomarkers or imaging tracers with utility for diagnosis and/or theragnosis available …

Conformational strains of pathogenic amyloid proteins in neurodegenerative diseases

D Li, C Liu - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2022 - nature.com
Amyloid proteins, which are considered 'villains' in many neurodegenerative diseases, form
enigmatic pathological strains that underlie disease pathogenesis and progression. Recent …

Tau deposition patterns are associated with functional connectivity in primary tauopathies

N Franzmeier, M Brendel, L Beyer, L Slemann… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Tau pathology is the main driver of neuronal dysfunction in 4-repeat tauopathies, including
cortico-basal degeneration and progressive supranuclear palsy. Tau is assumed to spread …

Microgliosis and neuronal proteinopathy in brain persist beyond viral clearance in SARS-CoV-2 hamster model

C Käufer, CS Schreiber, AS Hartke, I Denden… - …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background Neurological symptoms such as cognitive decline and depression contribute
substantially to post-COVID-19 syndrome, defined as lasting symptoms several weeks after …

Rainwater Charitable Foundation criteria for the neuropathologic diagnosis of progressive supranuclear palsy

SF Roemer, LT Grinberg, JF Crary, WW Seeley… - Acta …, 2022 - Springer
Neuropathologic criteria for progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) proposed by a National
Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) working group were published in …

The role of noradrenaline in cognition and cognitive disorders

N Holland, TW Robbins, JB Rowe - Brain, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Many aspects of cognition and behaviour are regulated by noradrenergic projections to the
forebrain originating from the locus coeruleus, acting through alpha and beta …