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 complexity of tau in Alzheimer's disease

NN Naseri, H Wang, J Guo, M Sharma, W Luo - Neuroscience letters, 2019 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by two major pathological lesions in the brain,
amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) composed mainly of amyloid-β (Aβ) …

Protein misfolding in neurodegenerative diseases: implications and strategies

P Sweeney, H Park, M Baumann, J Dunlop… - Translational …, 2017 - Springer
A hallmark of neurodegenerative proteinopathies is the formation of misfolded protein
aggregates that cause cellular toxicity and contribute to cellular proteostatic collapse …

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 …

Propagation of tau aggregates and neurodegeneration

M Goedert, DS Eisenberg… - Annual review of …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
A pathway from the natively unfolded microtubule-associated protein Tau to a highly
structured amyloid fibril underlies human Tauopathies. This ordered assembly causes …

The Hsp70/Hsp90 chaperone machinery in neurodegenerative diseases

RE Lackie, A Maciejewski, VG Ostapchenko… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
The accumulation of misfolded proteins in the human brain is one of the critical features of
many neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease (AD). Assembles of beta …

Mechanisms of secretion and spreading of pathological tau protein

CA Brunello, M Merezhko, RL Uronen… - Cellular and Molecular …, 2020 - Springer
Accumulation of misfolded and aggregated forms of tau protein in the brain is a
neuropathological hallmark of tauopathies, such as Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal …

Mechanisms of pathogenic tau and Aβ protein spreading in Alzheimer's disease

P d 'Errico, M Meyer-Luehmann - Frontiers in aging neuroscience, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is pathologically defined by extracellular accumulation of amyloid-
β (Aβ) peptides generated by the cleavage of amyloid precursor protein (APP), strings of …

Effects of oligomer toxicity, fibril toxicity and fibril spreading in synucleinopathies

R Cascella, A Bigi, N Cremades, C Cecchi - Cellular and Molecular Life …, 2022 - Springer
Protein misfolding is a general hallmark of protein deposition diseases, such as Alzheimer's
disease or Parkinson's disease, in which different types of aggregated species (oligomers …

Like prions: the propagation of aggregated tau and α-synuclein in neurodegeneration

M Goedert, M Masuda-Suzukake, B Falcon - Brain, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The abnormal aggregation of a small number of known proteins underlies the most common
human neurodegenerative diseases. In tauopathies and synucleinopathies, the normally …