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 …

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 …

Secretion of tau via an unconventional non-vesicular mechanism

M Merezhko, CA Brunello, X Yan, H Vihinen, E Jokitalo… - Cell reports, 2018 - cell.com
Tauopathies are characterized by cerebral accumulation of Tau protein aggregates that
appear to spread throughout the brain via a cell-to-cell transmission process that includes …

Discovery and characterization of stable and toxic Tau/phospholipid oligomeric complexes

N Ait-Bouziad, G Lv, AL Mahul-Mellier, S **ao… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
The microtubule-associated protein Tau plays a central role in the pathogenesis of
Alzheimer's disease. Although Tau interaction with membranes is thought to affect some of …

Folding of the tau protein on microtubules

H Kadavath, M Jaremko, Ł Jaremko… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Microtubules are regulated by microtubule‐associated proteins. However, little is known
about the structure of microtubule‐associated proteins in complex with microtubules. Herein …

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 …

The evolution of tau phosphorylation and interactions

NI Trushina, L Bakota, AY Mulkidjanian… - Frontiers in aging …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Tau is a neuronal microtubule-associated protein (MAP) that is involved in the regulation of
axonal microtubule assembly. However, as a protein with intrinsically disordered regions …

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 …

Clathrin adaptor CALM/PICALM is associated with neurofibrillary tangles and is cleaved in Alzheimer's brains

K Ando, JP Brion, V Stygelbout, V Suain… - Acta …, 2013 - Springer
PICALM, a clathrin adaptor protein, plays important roles in clathrin-mediated endocytosis in
all cell types. Recently, genome-wide association studies identified single nucleotide …

Aβ and Tau Interact with Metal Ions, Lipid Membranes and Peptide-Based Amyloid Inhibitors: Are These Common Features Relevant in Alzheimer's Disease?

G Di Natale, G Sabatino, MFM Sciacca, R Tosto… - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
In the last two decades, the amyloid hypothesis, ie, the abnormal accumulation of toxic Aβ
assemblies in the brain, has been considered the mainstream concept sustaining research …