Role of tau protein in Alzheimer's disease: The prime pathological player

S Muralidar, SV Ambi, S Sekaran, D Thirumalai… - International journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a prevalently found tauopathy characterized by memory loss
and cognitive insufficiency. AD is an age-related neurodegenerative disease with two major …

[HTML][HTML] Lysosome dysfunction as a cause of neurodegenerative diseases: Lessons from frontotemporal dementia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

J Root, P Merino, A Nuckols, M Johnson… - Neurobiology of disease, 2021 - Elsevier
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) are fatal
neurodegenerative disorders that are thought to exist on a clinical and pathological …

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 …

What is the evidence that tau pathology spreads through prion-like propagation?

A Mudher, M Colin, S Dujardin, M Medina… - Acta neuropathologica …, 2017 - Springer
Emerging experimental evidence suggests that the spread of tau pathology in the brain in
Tauopathies reflects the propagation of abnormal tau species along neuroanatomically …

Unconventional secretion mediates the trans-cellular spreading of tau

T Katsinelos, M Zeitler, E Dimou, A Karakatsani… - Cell reports, 2018 - cell.com
The progressive deposition of misfolded hyperphosphorylated tau is a pathological hallmark
of tauopathies, including Alzheimer's disease. However, the underlying molecular …

From the prion-like propagation hypothesis to therapeutic strategies of anti-tau immunotherapy

M Colin, S Dujardin, S Schraen-Maschke… - Acta …, 2020 - Springer
The term “propagon” is used to define proteins that may transmit misfolding in vitro, in
tissues or in organisms. Among propagons, misfolded tau is thought to be involved in the …

Exosomes induce endolysosomal permeabilization as a gateway by which exosomal tau seeds escape into the cytosol

JC Polanco, GR Hand, A Briner, C Li, J Götz - Acta neuropathologica, 2021 - Springer
The microtubule-associated protein tau has a critical role in Alzheimer's disease and other
tauopathies. A proposed pathomechanism in the progression of tauopathies is the trans …

Four-repeat tauopathies

TW Roesler, AT Marvian, M Brendel… - Progress in …, 2019 - Elsevier
Tau is a microtubule-associated protein with versatile functions in the dynamic assembly of
the neuronal cytoskeleton. Four-repeat (4R-) tauopathies are a group of neurodegenerative …

Promoting tau secretion and propagation by hyperactive p300/CBP via autophagy-lysosomal pathway in tauopathy

X Chen, Y Li, C Wang, Y Tang, SA Mok… - Molecular …, 2020 - Springer
Background The trans-neuronal propagation of tau has been implicated in the progression
of tau-mediated neurodegeneration. There is critical knowledge gap in understanding how …

Generation and release of mitochondrial-derived vesicles in health, aging and disease

A Picca, F Guerra, R Calvani, HJ Coelho-Junior… - Journal of clinical …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Mitochondria are intracellular organelles involved in a myriad of activities. To safeguard their
vital functions, mitochondrial quality control (MQC) systems are in place to support organelle …