Amyloid oligomers: A joint experimental/computational perspective on Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, type II diabetes, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

PH Nguyen, A Ramamoorthy, BR Sahoo… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Protein misfolding and aggregation is observed in many amyloidogenic diseases affecting
either the central nervous system or a variety of peripheral tissues. Structural and dynamic …

Molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease

T Guo, D Zhang, Y Zeng, TY Huang, H Xu… - Molecular …, 2020 - Springer
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disorder seen in age-
dependent dementia. There is currently no effective treatment for AD, which may be …

Assembly of recombinant tau into filaments identical to those of Alzheimer's disease and chronic traumatic encephalopathy

S Lövestam, FA Koh, B van Knippenberg, A Kotecha… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Abundant filamentous inclusions of tau are characteristic of more than 20
neurodegenerative diseases that are collectively termed tauopathies. Electron cryo …

Disease-specific tau filaments assemble via polymorphic intermediates

S Lövestam, D Li, JL Wagstaff, A Kotecha, D Kimanius… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Intermediate species in the assembly of amyloid filaments are believed to play a central role
in neurodegenerative diseases and may constitute important targets for therapeutic …

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 …

Liquid–liquid phase separation of the microtubule-binding repeats of the Alzheimer-related protein Tau

S Ambadipudi, J Biernat, D Riedel… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
The protein Tau aggregates into tangles in the brain of patients with Alzheimer's disease. In
solution, however, Tau is intrinsically disordered, highly soluble, and binds to microtubules …

Heparin-induced tau filaments are polymorphic and differ from those in Alzheimer's and Pick's diseases

W Zhang, B Falcon, AG Murzin, J Fan, RA Crowther… - elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
Assembly of microtubule-associated protein tau into filamentous inclusions underlies a
range of neurodegenerative diseases. Tau filaments adopt different conformations in …

The complexity of tau in Alzheimer's disease

NN Naseri, H Wang, J Guo, M Sharma, W Luo - Neuroscience letters, 2019 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by two major pathological lesions in the brain,
amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) composed mainly of amyloid-β (Aβ) …

Tau and tauopathies

T Arendt, JT Stieler, M Holzer - Brain research bulletin, 2016 - Elsevier
Most neurodegenerative diseases are characterized by intracellular aggregates of insoluble
proteins. As for the majority of these disorders, aetiology and pathogenesis are only poorly …

Biochemistry and cell biology of tau protein in neurofibrillary degeneration

EM Mandelkow, E Mandelkow - Cold Spring …, 2012 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
Tau represents the subunit protein of one of the major hallmarks of Alzheimer disease (AD),
the neurofibrillary tangles, and is therefore of major interest as an indicator of disease …