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 …

Tau proteolysis in the pathogenesis of tauopathies: neurotoxic fragments and novel biomarkers

JP Quinn, NJ Corbett, KAB Kellett… - Journal of Alzheimer's …, 2018 - content.iospress.com
With predictions showing that 131.5 million people worldwide will be living with dementia by
2050, an understanding of the molecular mechanisms underpinning disease is crucial in the …

Novel tau biomarkers phosphorylated at T181, T217 or T231 rise in the initial stages of the preclinical Alzheimer's continuum when only subtle changes in Aβ …

M Suárez‐Calvet, TK Karikari, NJ Ashton… - EMBO molecular …, 2020 - embopress.org
In Alzheimer's disease (AD), tau phosphorylation in the brain and its subsequent release
into cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and blood is a dynamic process that changes during disease …

Posttranslational modifications mediate the structural diversity of tauopathy strains

T Arakhamia, CE Lee, Y Carlomagno, M Kumar… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Tau aggregation into insoluble filaments is the defining pathological hallmark of tauopathies.
However, it is not known what controls the formation and templated seeding of strain-specific …

Alzheimer's disease: Ablating single master site abolishes tau hyperphosphorylation

K Stefanoska, M Gajwani, ARP Tan, HI Ahel… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Hyperphosphorylation of the neuronal tau protein is a hallmark of neurodegenerative
tauopathies such as Alzheimer's disease. A central unanswered question is why tau …

Head‐to‐head comparison of clinical performance of CSF phospho‐tau T181 and T217 biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease diagnosis

TK Karikari, A Emeršič, A Vrillon… - Alzheimer's & …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction Phosphorylated tau (p‐tau) in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is an established
Alzheimer's disease (AD) biomarker. Novel immunoassays targeting N‐terminal and mid …

Secretion of tau via an unconventional non-vesicular mechanism

M Merezhko, CA Brunello, X Yan, H Vihinen, E Jokitalo… - Cell reports, 2018 - cell.com
Tauopathies are characterized by cerebral accumulation of Tau protein aggregates that
appear to spread throughout the brain via a cell-to-cell transmission process that includes …

Alpha-synuclein from patient Lewy bodies exhibits distinct pathological activity that can be propagated in vitro

NP Marotta, J Ara, N Uemura, MG Lougee… - Acta neuropathologica …, 2021 - Springer
Lewy bodies (LBs) are complex, intracellular inclusions that are common pathological
features of many neurodegenerative diseases. They consist largely of aggregated forms of …

Microglia in Alzheimer's disease in the context of tau pathology

JR Perea, M Bolós, J Avila - Biomolecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
Microglia are the cells that comprise the innate immune system in the brain. First described
more than a century ago, these cells were initially assigned a secondary role in the central …

The anesthetic sevoflurane induces tau trafficking from neurons to microglia

Y Dong, F Liang, L Huang, F Fang, G Yang… - Communications …, 2021 - nature.com
Accumulation and spread of tau in Alzheimer's disease and other tauopathies occur in a
prion-like manner. However, the mechanisms and downstream consequences of tau …