It's all about tau

C Tapia-Rojas, F Cabezas-Opazo, CA Deaton… - Progress in …, 2019 - Elsevier
Tau is a protein that is highly enriched in neurons and was originally defined by its ability to
bind and stabilize microtubules. However, it is now becoming evident that the functions of …

Tau phosphorylation rates measured by mass spectrometry differ in the intracellular brain vs. extracellular cerebrospinal fluid compartments and are differentially …

NR Barthélemy, N Mallipeddi, P Moiseyev… - Frontiers in aging …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Tau protein aggregation into neurofibrillary tangles in the central nervous system contributes
to the etiology of certain neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer's disease (AD) …

Lysine methylation: Implications in neurodegenerative disease

EM Rowe, V Xing, KK Biggar - Brain research, 2019 - Elsevier
Lysine methylation is well-documented and relatively well-understood with respect to
histone modification and the epigenetic regulation of gene expression. Enzymes called …

Filamentous aggregates are fragmented by the proteasome holoenzyme

R Cliffe, JC Sang, F Kundel, D Finley, D Klenerman… - Cell reports, 2019 - cell.com
Filamentous aggregates (fibrils) are regarded as the final stage in the assembly of
amyloidogenic proteins and are formed in many neurodegenerative diseases. Accumulation …

Quantification of tau protein lysine methylation in aging and Alzheimer's disease

CJ Huseby, CN Hoffman, GL Cooper… - Journal of …, 2019 - content.iospress.com
Tau is a microtubule-associated protein that normally interacts in monomeric form with the
neuronal cytoskeleton. In Alzheimer's disease, however, it aggregates to form the structural …

Regulation of tau homeostasis and toxicity by acetylation

T Tracy, KC Claiborn, L Gan - Tau Biology, 2019 - Springer
Multiple neurodegenerative conditions including Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal
dementia are characterized by the accumulation of tau in the brain, associated with synapse …

[HTML][HTML] Analysis of post-translational modifications in Alzheimer's disease by mass spectrometry

AR Kelley, SBH Bach, G Perry - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Molecular Basis …, 2019 - Elsevier
The roles of post-translational modifications (PTMs) in the onset and progression of disease
have been extensively studied for decades. More specifically, various PTMs have been the …

Sex-specific Tau methylation patterns and synaptic transcriptional alterations are associated with neural vulnerability during chronic neuroinflammation

A Didonna, E Cantó, H Shams, N Isobe, C Zhao… - Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
The molecular events underlying the transition from initial inflammatory flares to the
progressive phase of multiple sclerosis (MS) remain poorly understood. Here, we report that …

Déterminants structuraux d'agrégats de Tau distincts: vers de nouveaux outils moléculaires pour discriminer les tauopathies

E Caroux - 2019 - theses.hal.science
Les dépôts intracellulaires de la protéine Tau agrégée sont la caractéristique commune des
tauopathies, une famille de maladies neurodégénératives dont fait partie la maladie …