Tau post-translational modifications: dynamic transformers of tau function, degradation, and aggregation

C Alquezar, S Arya, AW Kao - Frontiers in neurology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Post-translational modifications (PTMs) on tau have long been recognized as affecting
protein function and contributing to neurodegeneration. The explosion of information on …

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 …

A reference human induced pluripotent stem cell line for large-scale collaborative studies

CB Pantazis, A Yang, E Lara, JA McDonough… - Cell stem cell, 2022 - cell.com
Human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) lines are a powerful tool for studying
development and disease, but the considerable phenotypic variation between lines makes it …

Tau kinetics in neurons and the human central nervous system

C Sato, NR Barthélemy, KG Mawuenyega… - Neuron, 2018 - cell.com
We developed stable isotope labeling and mass spectrometry approaches to measure the
kinetics of multiple isoforms and fragments of tau in the human central nervous system …

Neuronal activity enhances tau propagation and tau pathology in vivo

JW Wu, SA Hussaini, IM Bastille, GA Rodriguez… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Tau protein can transfer between neurons transneuronally and trans-synaptically, which is
thought to explain the progressive spread of tauopathy observed in the brain of patients with …

[HTML][HTML] ELAVL4, splicing, and glutamatergic dysfunction precede neuron loss in MAPT mutation cerebral organoids

KR Bowles, MC Silva, K Whitney, T Bertucci, JE Berlind… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) because of MAPT mutation causes pathological
accumulation of tau and glutamatergic cortical neuronal death by unknown mechanisms. We …

2D versus 3D human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cultures for neurodegenerative disease modelling

EGZ Centeno, H Cimarosti, A Bithell - Molecular neurodegeneration, 2018 - Springer
Neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD),
Huntington's disease (HD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), affect millions of people …

G‐quadruplex‐binding small molecules ameliorate C9orf72 FTD/ALS pathology in vitro and in vivo

R Simone, R Balendra, TG Moens, E Preza… - EMBO molecular …, 2018 - embopress.org
Intronic GGGGCC repeat expansions in C9orf72 are the most common known cause of
frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), which are …

Hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease in stem-cell-derived human neurons transplanted into mouse brain

I Espuny-Camacho, AM Arranz, M Fiers, A Snellinx… - Neuron, 2017 - cell.com
Human pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) provide a unique entry to study species-specific
aspects of human disorders such as Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, in vitro culture of …

Amyloid-β42/40 ratio drives tau pathology in 3D human neural cell culture models of Alzheimer's disease

SS Kwak, KJ Washicosky, E Brand… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The relationship between amyloid-β (Aβ) species and tau pathology in Alzheimer's disease
(AD) is not fully understood. Here, we provide direct evidence that Aβ42/40 ratio, not total Aβ …