All the tau we cannot see

B Hyman - Annual Review of Medicine, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) was described in 1906 as a dementing disease marked by the
presence of two types of fibrillar aggregates in the brain: neurofibrillary tangles and senile …

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 …

Homotypic fibrillization of TMEM106B across diverse neurodegenerative diseases

A Chang, X Xiang, J Wang, C Lee, T Arakhamia… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Misfolding and aggregation of disease-specific proteins, resulting in the formation of
filamentous cellular inclusions, is a hallmark of neurodegenerative disease with …

Novel aspects of the phosphorylation and structure of pathological tau: implications for tauopathy biomarkers

T Kimura, H Sato, M Kano, L Tatsumi… - FEBS Open bio, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The deposition of highly phosphorylated and aggregated tau is a characteristic of
tauopathies, including Alzheimer's disease. It has long been known that different isoforms of …

Unified epigenomic, transcriptomic, proteomic, and metabolomic taxonomy of Alzheimer's disease progression and heterogeneity

Y Iturria-Medina, Q Adewale, AF Khan, S Ducharme… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a heterogeneous disorder with abnormalities in multiple
biological domains. In an advanced machine learning analysis of postmortem brain and in …

Inhibition of Tau seeding by targeting Tau nucleation core within neurons with a single domain antibody fragment

C Danis, E Dupré, O Zejneli, R Caillierez, A Arrial… - Molecular Therapy, 2022 - cell.com
Tau proteins aggregate into filaments in brain cells in Alzheimer's disease and related
disorders referred to as tauopathies. Here, we used fragments of camelid heavy-chain-only …

Tau seed amplification assay reveals relationship between seeding and pathological forms of tau in Alzheimer's disease brain

B Frey, D Holzinger, K Taylor, DE Ehrnhoefer… - Acta Neuropathologica …, 2023 - Springer
Tau seed amplification assays (SAAs) directly measure the seeding activity of tau and would
therefore be ideal biomarkers for clinical trials targeting seeding-competent tau in …

Specific detection of tau seeding activity in Alzheimer's disease using rationally designed biosensor cells

A Lathuiliere, Y Jo, R Perbet, C Donahue… - Molecular …, 2023 - Springer
Background The prion-like propagation of tau in neurodegenerative disorders implies that
misfolded pathological tau can recruit the normal protein and template its aggregation. Here …

Self‐Aggregating Tau Fragments Recapitulate Pathologic Phenotypes and Neurotoxicity of Alzheimer's Disease in Mice

LTHL Le, J Lee, D Im, S Park, KD Hwang… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In tauopathy conditions, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), highly soluble and natively
unfolded tau polymerizes into an insoluble filament; however, the mechanistic details of this …

Pick's disease, seeding an answer to the clinical diagnosis conundrum

N Tamvaka, S Manne, N Kondru, OA Ross - Biomedicines, 2023 - mdpi.com
Pick's disease (PiD) is a devastating neurodegenerative disease that is characterized by
dementia, frontotemporal lobar degeneration, and the aggregation of 3R tau in …