Modeling neurodegeneration in Caenorhabditiselegans

KA Caldwell, CW Willicott… - Disease Models & …, 2020 - journals.biologists.com
The global burden of neurodegenerative diseases underscores the urgent need for
innovative strategies to define new drug targets and disease-modifying factors. The …

All the tau we cannot see

B Hyman - Annual Review of Medicine, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) was described in 1906 as a dementing disease marked by the
presence of two types of fibrillar aggregates in the brain: neurofibrillary tangles and senile …

Tau protein liquid–liquid phase separation can initiate tau aggregation

S Wegmann, B Eftekharzadeh, K Tepper… - The EMBO …, 2018 - embopress.org
The transition between soluble intrinsically disordered tau protein and aggregated tau in
neurofibrillary tangles in Alzheimer's disease is unknown. Here, we propose that soluble tau …

Tau structures

J Avila, JS Jiménez, CL Sayas, M Bolós… - Frontiers in aging …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Tau is a microtubule-associated protein that plays an important role in axonal stabilization,
neuronal development, and neuronal polarity. In this review, we focus on the primary …

Amyloid, tau, pathogen infection and antimicrobial protection in Alzheimer's disease–conformist, nonconformist, and realistic prospects for AD pathogenesis

H Li, CC Liu, H Zheng, TY Huang - Translational neurodegeneration, 2018 - Springer
Background Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a fatal disease that threatens the quality of life of an
aging population at a global scale. Various hypotheses on the etiology of AD have been …

A comprehensive resource for induced pluripotent stem cells from patients with primary tauopathies

CM Karch, AW Kao, A Karydas, K Onanuga, R Martinez… - Stem cell reports, 2019 - cell.com
Primary tauopathies are characterized neuropathologically by inclusions containing
abnormal forms of the microtubule-associated protein tau (MAPT) and clinically by diverse …

An inhibitor of the proteasomal deubiquitinating enzyme USP14 induces tau elimination in cultured neurons

M Boselli, BH Lee, J Robert, MA Prado, SW Min… - Journal of Biological …, 2017 - ASBMB
The ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS) is responsible for most selective protein
degradation in eukaryotes and regulates numerous cellular processes, including cell cycle …

Modeling Alzheimer's Disease in Caenorhabditis elegans

J Alvarez, P Alvarez-Illera, J Santo-Domingo… - Biomedicines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most frequent cause of dementia. After decades of research,
we know the importance of the accumulation of protein aggregates such as β-amyloid …

Human iPSC-derived neuronal model of tau-A152T frontotemporal dementia reveals tau-mediated mechanisms of neuronal vulnerability

MC Silva, C Cheng, W Mair, S Almeida, H Fong… - Stem cell reports, 2016 - cell.com
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and other tauopathies characterized by focal brain
neurodegeneration and pathological accumulation of proteins are commonly associated …

Tau and axonal transport misregulation in tauopathies

B Combs, RL Mueller, G Morfini, ST Brady, NM Kanaan - Tau Biology, 2019 - Springer
Tau is a microtubule-associated protein that is involved in both normal and pathological
processes in neurons. Since the discovery and characterization of tau over 40 years ago …