Revisiting the grammar of Tau aggregation and pathology formation: how new insights from brain pathology are shaping 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 …

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 …

Assembly of recombinant tau into filaments identical to those of Alzheimer's disease and chronic traumatic encephalopathy

S Lövestam, FA Koh, B van Knippenberg, A Kotecha… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Abundant filamentous inclusions of tau are characteristic of more than 20
neurodegenerative diseases that are collectively termed tauopathies. Electron cryo …

Molecular pathogenesis of the tauopathies

J Götz, G Halliday, RM Nisbet - Annual Review of Pathology …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
The tauopathies constitute a group of diseases that have Tau inclusions in neurons or glia
as their common denominator. In this review, we describe the biochemical and histological …

Physicochemical properties of cells and their effects on intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs)

FX Theillet, A Binolfi, T Frembgen-Kesner… - Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
It has long been axiomatic that a protein's structure determines its function. Intrinsically
disordered proteins (IDPs) and disordered protein regions (IDRs) defy this structure …

Tau protein kinases: involvement in Alzheimer's disease

L Martin, X Latypova, CM Wilson, A Magnaudeix… - Ageing research …, 2013 - Elsevier
Tau phosphorylation is regulated by a balance between tau kinase and phosphatase
activities. Disruption of this equilibrium was suggested to be at the origin of abnormal tau …

Tau as a biomarker of neurodegeneration

S Holper, R Watson, N Yassi - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Less than 50 years since tau was first isolated from a porcine brain, its detection in femtolitre
concentrations in biological fluids is revolutionizing the diagnosis of neurodegenerative …

Tau-based therapies in neurodegeneration: opportunities and challenges

C Li, J Götz - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2017 - nature.com
Aggregates of the microtubule-associated protein tau are a defining feature of several
neurodegenerative diseases that are collectively known as tauopathies, and constitute one …

Structure and pathology of tau protein in Alzheimer disease

M Kolarova, F García-Sierra, A Bartos… - International journal …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Alzheimer′ s disease (AD) is the most common type of dementia. In connection with the
global trend of prolonging human life and the increasing number of elderly in the population …

Post-translational modifications of tau protein: implications for Alzheimer's disease

L Martin, X Latypova, F Terro - Neurochemistry international, 2011 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) belongs to a group of neurodegenerative diseases collectively
designated as “tauopathies”, because they are characterized by the aggregation of …