Are tau aggregates toxic or protective in tauopathies?

CM Cowan, A Mudher - Frontiers in neurology, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Aggregation of highly phosphorylated tau into aggregated forms such as filaments and
neurofibrillary tangles is one of the defining pathological hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease …

Tau physiology and pathomechanisms in frontotemporal lobar degeneration

LG Bodea, A Eckert, LM Ittner, O Piguet… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) has been associated with toxic intracellular
aggregates of hyperphosphorylated tau (FTLD‐tau). Moreover, genetic studies identified …

Increased expression of BIN1 mediates Alzheimer genetic risk by modulating tau pathology

J Chapuis, F Hansmannel, M Gistelinck… - Molecular …, 2013 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified a region upstream the BIN1 gene
as the most important genetic susceptibility locus in Alzheimer's disease (AD) after APOE …

UBE4B, a microRNA-9 target gene, promotes autophagy-mediated Tau degradation

M Subramanian, SJ Hyeon, T Das, YS Suh… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The formation of hyperphosphorylated intracellular Tau tangles in the brain is a hallmark of
Alzheimer's disease (AD). Tau hyperphosphorylation destabilizes microtubules, promoting …

Inhibition of tau aggregation in a novel Caenorhabditis elegans model of tauopathy mitigates proteotoxicity

C Fatouros, GJ Pir, J Biernat… - Human molecular …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Increased Tau protein amyloidogenicity has been causatively implicated in several
neurodegenerative diseases, collectively called tauopathies. In pathological conditions, Tau …

Tauopathy-associated tau modifications selectively impact neurodegeneration and mitophagy in a novel C. elegans single-copy transgenic model

S Guha, S Fischer, GVW Johnson, K Nehrke - Molecular …, 2020 - Springer
Background A defining pathological hallmark of the progressive neurodegenerative disorder
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the accumulation of misfolded tau with abnormal post …

The role of tau proteoforms in health and disease

Z Waheed, J Choudhary, FH Jatala, Fatimah… - Molecular …, 2023 - Springer
Tau is a microtubule-associated binding protein in the nervous system that is known for its
role in stabilizing microtubules throughout the nerve cell. It accumulates as β-sheet-rich …

Stabilization of microtubule-unbound tau via tau phosphorylation at Ser262/356 by Par-1/MARK contributes to augmentation of AD-related phosphorylation and Aβ42 …

K Ando, A Maruko-Otake, Y Ohtake… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Abnormal accumulation of the microtubule-interacting protein tau is associated with
neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer's disease (AD). β-amyloid (Aβ) lies …

[HTML][HTML] Distinct phenotypes of three-repeat and four-repeat human tau in a transgenic model of tauopathy

MA Sealey, E Vourkou, CM Cowan, T Bossing… - Neurobiology of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Tau exists as six closely related protein isoforms in the adult human brain. These are
generated from alternative splicing of a single mRNA transcript and they differ in the …

Tau Ser262 phosphorylation is critical for Aβ42-induced tau toxicity in a transgenic Drosophila model of Alzheimer's disease

K Iijima, A Gatt, K Iijima-Ando - Human molecular genetics, 2010 - academic.oup.com
The amyloid-β 42 (Aβ42) peptide has been suggested to promote tau phosphorylation and
toxicity in Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathogenesis; however, the underlying mechanisms are …