Hallmarks of neurodegenerative diseases

DM Wilson, MR Cookson, L Van Den Bosch… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Decades of research have identified genetic factors and biochemical pathways involved in
neurodegenerative diseases (NDDs). We present evidence for the following eight hallmarks …

Tau biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease: towards implementation in clinical practice and trials

R Ossenkoppele, R van der Kant… - The Lancet …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background Deposition of tau aggregates is a pathological hallmark of Alzheimer's disease
that is closely linked both spatially and temporally to emergence of neurodegeneration and …

[HTML][HTML] Tau interactome maps synaptic and mitochondrial processes associated with neurodegeneration

TE Tracy, J Madero-Pérez, DL Swaney, TS Chang… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Tau (MAPT) drives neuronal dysfunction in Alzheimer disease (AD) and other tauopathies.
To dissect the underlying mechanisms, we combined an engineered ascorbic acid …

PROTAC: an effective targeted protein degradation strategy for cancer therapy

SM Qi, J Dong, ZY Xu, XD Cheng, WD Zhang… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Proteolysis targeting chimeric (PROTAC) technology is an effective endogenous protein
degradation tool developed in recent years that can ubiquitinate the target proteins through …

Tau-targeting therapies for Alzheimer disease

EE Congdon, EM Sigurdsson - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2018 - nature.com
Alzheimer disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia. Pathologically, AD is
characterized by amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles in the brain, with associated …

Tau: Enabler of diverse brain disorders and target of rapidly evolving therapeutic strategies

CW Chang, E Shao, L Mucke - Science, 2021 - science.org
BACKGROUND The microtubule-associated protein tau has been implicated in the
pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease and a range of other neurodegenerative disorders …

Protein condensation diseases: therapeutic opportunities

M Vendruscolo, M Fuxreiter - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
Condensed states of proteins, including liquid-like membraneless organelles and solid-like
aggregates, contribute in fundamental ways to the organisation and function of the cell …

Promoting the clearance of neurotoxic proteins in neurodegenerative disorders of ageing

B Boland, WH Yu, O Corti, B Mollereau… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2018 - nature.com
Neurodegenerative disorders of ageing (NDAs) such as Alzheimer disease, Parkinson
disease, frontotemporal dementia, Huntington disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis …

Roles of tau protein in health and disease

T Guo, W Noble, DP Hanger - Acta neuropathologica, 2017 - Springer
Tau is well established as a microtubule-associated protein in neurons. However, under
pathological conditions, aberrant assembly of tau into insoluble aggregates is accompanied …

The logic of the 26S proteasome

GA Collins, AL Goldberg - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
The ubiquitin proteasome pathway is responsible for most of the protein degradation in
mammalian cells. Rates of degradation by this pathway have generally been assumed to be …