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 …

The role of biomolecular condensates in protein aggregation

BS Visser, WP Lipiński, E Spruijt - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2024 - nature.com
There is an increasing amount of evidence that biomolecular condensates are linked to
neurodegenerative diseases associated with protein aggregation, such as Alzheimer's …

Tau liquid–liquid phase separation in neurodegenerative diseases

S Boyko, WK Surewicz - Trends in cell biology, 2022 - cell.com
Aggregation of the microtubule-associated protein tau plays a major role in Alzheimer's
disease and several other neurodegenerative disorders. An exciting recent development is …

Conformational expansion of tau in condensates promotes irreversible aggregation

J Wen, L Hong, G Krainer, QQ Yao… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) of proteins into biomolecular condensates has
emerged as a fundamental principle underpinning cellular function and malfunction. Indeed …

Mammalian telomeric RNA (TERRA) can be translated to produce valine–arginine and glycine–leucine dipeptide repeat proteins

TM Al-Turki, JD Griffith - Proceedings of the National …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Mammalian telomeres consist of (TTAGGG) n repeats. Transcription of the C-rich strand
generates a G-rich RNA, termed TERRA, containing G-quadruplex structures. Recent …

Protein interaction networks in neurodegenerative diseases: From physiological function to aggregation

G Calabrese, C Molzahn, T Mayor - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2022 - ASBMB
The accumulation of protein inclusions is linked to many neurodegenerative diseases that
typically develop in older individuals, due to a combination of genetic and environmental …

Heterotypic electrostatic interactions control complex phase separation of tau and prion into multiphasic condensates and co-aggregates

SK Rai, R Khanna, A Avni… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Biomolecular condensates formed via phase separation of proteins and nucleic acids are
thought to perform a wide range of critical cellular functions by maintaining spatiotemporal …

Emerging roles of O-glycosylation in regulating protein aggregation, phase separation, and functions

X Li, Y Du, X Chen, C Liu - Current Opinion in Chemical Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Protein O-glycosylation is widely identified in various proteins involved in diverse biological
processes. Recent studies have demonstrated that O-glycosylation plays crucial and …

Liquid–liquid phase separation of tau: From molecular biophysics to physiology and disease

SK Rai, A Savastano, P Singh… - Protein …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Biomolecular condensation via liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) of intrinsically
disordered proteins/regions (IDPs/IDRs), with and without nucleic acids, has drawn …

Molecular crowding and RNA synergize to promote phase separation, microtubule interaction, and seeding of Tau condensates

J Hochmair, C Exner, M Franck… - The EMBO …, 2022 - embopress.org
Biomolecular condensation of the neuronal microtubule‐associated protein Tau (MAPT) can
be induced by coacervation with polyanions like RNA, or by molecular crowding. Tau …