Brief update on different roles of tau in neurodegeneration

A Ittner, YD Ke, J Eersel, A Gladbach, J Götz… - IUBMB …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Both Alzheimer's disease (AD) and almost every second case of frontotemporal lobar
degeneration (FTLD) are characterized by the deposition of hyperphosphorylated forms of …

Tau and neurodegenerative disease: the story so far

K Iqbal, F Liu, CX Gong - Nature reviews neurology, 2016 - nature.com
In 1975, tau protein was isolated as a microtubule-associated factor from the porcine brain.
In the previous year, a paired helical filament (PHF) protein had been identified in …

The role of tau in neurodegenerative diseases and its potential as a therapeutic target

MS Wolfe - Scientifica, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The abnormal deposition of proteins in and around neurons is a common pathological
feature of many neurodegenerative diseases. Among these pathological proteins, the …

Lessons from tau‐deficient mice

YD Ke, AK Suchowerska… - International journal …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Both Alzheimer′ s disease (AD) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) are characterized by
the deposition of hyperphosphorylated forms of the microtubule‐associated protein tau in …

Sources of extracellular tau and its signaling

J Avila, D Simón, M Díaz-Hernández… - Journal of …, 2014 - content.iospress.com
The pathology associated with tau protein, tauopathy, has been recently analyzed in
different disorders, leading to the suggestion that intracellular and extracellular tau may itself …

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 …

Tau pathology and neurodegeneration: an obvious but misunderstood link

A Delacourte - Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 2008 - content.iospress.com
Most dementing disorders result from a degenerating process named tauopathy. Alzheimer
disease is the most frequent one, but only one among the large spectrum of tau-related …

[HTML][HTML] Tau in neurodegenerative disease

YL Gao, N Wang, FR Sun, XP Cao… - Annals of translational …, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Tau, a microtubule-associated protein, is the main component of the intracellular filamentous
inclusions that are involved in neurodegenerative diseases known as tauopathies, including …

The role of tau in neurodegeneration

TF Gendron, L Petrucelli - Molecular neurodegeneration, 2009 - Springer
Since the identification of tau as the main component of neurofibrillary tangles in Alzheimer's
disease and related tauopathies, and the discovery that mutations in the tau gene cause …

Tau at the interface between neurodegeneration and neuroinflammation

A Didonna - Genes & Immunity, 2020 - nature.com
Tau is an evolutionary conserved protein that promotes the assembly and stabilization of
microtubules in neuronal axons. Complex patterns of posttranslational modifications (PTMs) …