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 …

Tau-targeting therapies for Alzheimer disease: current status and future directions

EE Congdon, C Ji, AM Tetlow, Y Jiang… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Alzheimer disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia in older individuals. AD is
characterized pathologically by amyloid-β (Aβ) plaques and tau neurofibrillary tangles in the …

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 …

Novel tau filament fold in corticobasal degeneration

W Zhang, A Tarutani, KL Newell, AG Murzin… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Corticobasal degeneration (CBD) is a neurodegenerative tauopathy—a class of disorders in
which the tau protein forms insoluble inclusions in the brain—that is characterized by motor …

Protein transmission in neurodegenerative disease

C Peng, JQ Trojanowski, VMY Lee - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2020 - nature.com
Most neurodegenerative diseases are characterized by the intracellular or extracellular
aggregation of misfolded proteins such as amyloid-β and tau in Alzheimer disease, α …

Neuroinflammation as a common feature of neurodegenerative disorders

L Guzman-Martinez, RB Maccioni, V Andrade… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Neurodegenerative diseases share the fact that they derive from altered proteins that
undergo an unfolding process followed by formation of β-structures and a pathological …

[HTML][HTML] Alzheimer disease: an update on pathobiology and treatment strategies

JM Long, DM Holtzman - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Alzheimer disease (AD) is a heterogeneous disease with a complex pathobiology. The
presence of extracellular β-amyloid deposition as neuritic plaques and intracellular …

Alzheimer's disease

JAS Lopez, HM González, GC Léger - Handbook of clinical neurology, 2019 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) dementia refers to a particular onset and course of cognitive and
functional decline associated with age together with a particular neuropathology. It was first …

Tau molecular diversity contributes to clinical heterogeneity in Alzheimer's disease

S Dujardin, C Commins, A Lathuiliere, P Beerepoot… - Nature medicine, 2020 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) causes unrelenting, progressive cognitive impairments, but its
course is heterogeneous, with a broad range of rates of cognitive decline. The spread of tau …

Neuronal cell death

M Fricker, AM Tolkovsky, V Borutaite… - Physiological …, 2018 - journals.physiology.org
Neuronal cell death occurs extensively during development and pathology, where it is
especially important because of the limited capacity of adult neurons to proliferate or be …