[HTML][HTML] Tau activates microglia via the PQBP1-cGAS-STING pathway to promote brain inflammation

M Jin, H Shiwaku, H Tanaka, T Obita, S Ohuchi… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Brain inflammation generally accompanies and accelerates neurodegeneration. Here we
report a microglial mechanism in which polyglutamine binding protein 1 (PQBP1) senses …

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) …

[HTML][HTML] Loss of tau rescues inflammation-mediated neurodegeneration

N Maphis, G Xu, ON Kokiko-Cochran… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Neuroinflammation is one of the neuropathological hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD)
and related tauopathies. Activated microglia spatially coexist with microtubule-associated …

[PDF][PDF] Tau pathology drives dementia risk-associated gene networks toward chronic inflammatory states and immunosuppression

JE Rexach, D Polioudakis, A Yin, V Swarup, TS Chang… - Cell reports, 2020 - cell.com
To understand how neural-immune-associated genes and pathways contribute to
neurodegenerative disease pathophysiology, we performed a systematic functional genomic …

[HTML][HTML] Tau and neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's disease: Interplay mechanisms and clinical translation

Y Chen, Y Yu - Journal of neuroinflammation, 2023 - Springer
Alzheimer's Disease (AD) contributes to most cases of dementia. Its prominent
neuropathological features are the extracellular neuritic plaques and intercellular …

[HTML][HTML] Glial contributions to neurodegeneration in tauopathies

CEG Leyns, DM Holtzman - Molecular neurodegeneration, 2017 - Springer
Tauopathies are a broad set of neurodegenerative dementias characterized by aggregation
of the tau protein into filamentous inclusions that can be found in neurons and glial cells …

[HTML][HTML] Inflammation induced by infection potentiates tau pathological features in transgenic mice

M Sy, M Kitazawa, R Medeiros, L Whitman… - The American journal of …, 2011 - Elsevier
Comorbidities that promote the progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD) remain to be
uncovered and evaluated in animal models. Because elderly individuals are vulnerable to …

[HTML][HTML] Tau overexpression impacts a neuroinflammation gene expression network perturbed in Alzheimer's disease

PD Wes, A Easton, J Corradi, DM Barten, N Devidze… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Filamentous inclusions of the microtubule-associated protein, tau, define a variety of
neurodegenerative diseases known as tauopathies, including Alzheimer's disease (AD). To …

[HTML][HTML] Tau and neuroinflammation: What impact for Alzheimer's Disease and Tauopathies?

C Laurent, L Buée, D Blum - Biomedical journal, 2018 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is a chronic neurodegenerative disorder and the most common
type of dementia (60–80% of cases). In 2016, nearly 44 million people were affected by AD …

[HTML][HTML] Who fans the flames of Alzheimer's disease brains? Misfolded tau on the crossroad of neurodegenerative and inflammatory pathways

N Zilka, Z Kazmerova, S Jadhav, P Neradil… - Journal of …, 2012 - Springer
Neurodegeneration, induced by misfolded tau protein, and neuroinflammation, driven by
glial cells, represent the salient features of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related human …