Tau protein aggregation in Alzheimer's disease: An attractive target for the development of novel therapeutic agents

M Jouanne, S Rault, AS Voisin-Chiret - European journal of medicinal …, 2017 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative brain disorder in which many biological
dysfunctions are involved. Among them, two main types of lesions were discovered and …

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 …

Structural polymorphism of 441-residue tau at single residue resolution

MD Mukrasch, S Bibow, J Korukottu, S Jeganathan… - PLoS …, 2009 - journals.plos.org
Alzheimer disease is characterized by abnormal protein deposits in the brain, such as
extracellular amyloid plaques and intracellular neurofibrillary tangles. The tangles are made …

Biochemistry of Tau in Alzheimer's disease and related neurological disorders

N Sergeant, A Bretteville, M Hamdane… - Expert review of …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Microtubule-associated Tau proteins belong to a family of factors that polymerize tubulin
dimers and stabilize microtubules. Tau is strongly expressed in neurons, localized in the …

Accelerated NMR spectroscopy with low‐rank reconstruction

X Qu, M Mayzel, JF Cai, Z Chen… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Accelerated multi‐dimensional NMR spectroscopy is a prerequisite for high‐throughput
applications, studying short‐lived molecular systems and monitoring chemical reactions in …

The “jaws” of the tau-microtubule interaction

MD Mukrasch, M Von Bergen, J Biernat… - Journal of Biological …, 2007 - ASBMB
Tau is the major microtubule-associated protein in neuronal axons. It aggregates into"
neurofibrillary tangles" during the course of Alzheimer disease. Binding to microtubules and …

Cell signaling, post-translational protein modifications and NMR spectroscopy

FX Theillet, C Smet-Nocca, S Liokatis… - Journal of biomolecular …, 2012 - Springer
Post-translationally modified proteins make up the majority of the proteome and establish, to
a large part, the impressive level of functional diversity in higher, multi-cellular organisms …

Highly populated turn conformations in natively unfolded tau protein identified from residual dipolar couplings and molecular simulation

MD Mukrasch, P Markwick, J Biernat… - Journal of the …, 2007 - ACS Publications
Tau, a natively unstructured protein that regulates the organization of neuronal microtubules,
is also found in high concentrations in neurofibrillary tangles of Alzheimer's disease and …

In situ observation of protein phosphorylation by high-resolution NMR spectroscopy

P Selenko, DP Frueh, SJ Elsaesser, W Haas… - Nature structural & …, 2008 - nature.com
Although the biological significance of protein phosphorylation in cellular signaling is widely
appreciated, methods to directly detect these post-translational modifications in situ are …

Structural impact of heparin binding to full-length Tau as studied by NMR spectroscopy

N Sibille, A Sillen, A Leroy, JM Wieruszeski… - Biochemistry, 2006 - ACS Publications
The neuronal Tau protein is involved in stabilizing microtubules but is also the major
component of the paired helical filaments (PHFs), the intracellular aggregates that …