The expanding amyloid family: Structure, stability, function, and pathogenesis

MR Sawaya, MP Hughes, JA Rodriguez, R Riek… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
The hidden world of amyloid biology has suddenly snapped into atomic-level focus,
revealing over 80 amyloid protein fibrils, both pathogenic and functional. Unlike globular …

Phosphorylated tau in Alzheimer's disease and other tauopathies

P Rawat, U Sehar, J Bisht, A Selman… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the leading cause of dementia in elderly people. Amyloid beta
(Aβ) deposits and neurofibrillary tangles are the major pathological features in an …

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 …

Alzheimer's disease brain-derived extracellular vesicles spread tau pathology in interneurons

Z Ruan, D Pathak, S Venkatesan Kalavai… - Brain, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Extracellular vesicles are highly transmissible and play critical roles in the propagation of tau
pathology, although the underlying mechanism remains elusive. Here, for the first time, we …

Amyloid-type protein aggregation and prion-like properties of amyloids

D Willbold, B Strodel, GF Schröder, W Hoyer… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
This review will focus on the process of amyloid-type protein aggregation. Amyloid fibrils are
an important hallmark of protein misfolding diseases and therefore have been investigated …

Acetylated tau inhibits chaperone-mediated autophagy and promotes tau pathology propagation in mice

B Caballero, M Bourdenx, E Luengo, A Diaz… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Disrupted homeostasis of the microtubule binding protein tau is a shared feature of a set of
neurodegenerative disorders known as tauopathies. Acetylation of soluble tau is an early …

Role of tau protein in Alzheimer's disease: The prime pathological player

S Muralidar, SV Ambi, S Sekaran, D Thirumalai… - International journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a prevalently found tauopathy characterized by memory loss
and cognitive insufficiency. AD is an age-related neurodegenerative disease with two major …

Tau deposition patterns are associated with functional connectivity in primary tauopathies

N Franzmeier, M Brendel, L Beyer, L Slemann… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Tau pathology is the main driver of neuronal dysfunction in 4-repeat tauopathies, including
cortico-basal degeneration and progressive supranuclear palsy. Tau is assumed to spread …

ADAMANT: a placebo-controlled randomized phase 2 study of AADvac1, an active immunotherapy against pathological tau in Alzheimer's disease

P Novak, B Kovacech, S Katina, R Schmidt… - Nature aging, 2021 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology is partly characterized by accumulation of aberrant
forms of tau protein. Here we report the results of ADAMANT, a 24-month double-blinded …

Biomolecular condensates can both accelerate and suppress aggregation of α-synuclein

WP Lipiński, BS Visser, I Robu, MAA Fakhree… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Biomolecular condensates present in cells can fundamentally affect the aggregation of
amyloidogenic proteins and play a role in the regulation of this process. While liquid-liquid …