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 …

Gene–stress–epigenetic regulation of FKBP5: clinical and translational implications

AS Zannas, T Wiechmann, NC Gassen… - …, 2016 - nature.com
Stress responses and related outcomes vary markedly across individuals. Elucidating the
molecular underpinnings of this variability is of great relevance for developing individualized …

Holocaust exposure induced intergenerational effects on FKBP5 methylation

R Yehuda, NP Daskalakis, LM Bierer, HN Bader… - Biological …, 2016 - Elsevier
Background The involvement of epigenetic mechanisms in intergenerational transmission of
stress effects has been demonstrated in animals but not in humans. Methods Cytosine …

The Hsp70/Hsp90 chaperone machinery in neurodegenerative diseases

RE Lackie, A Maciejewski, VG Ostapchenko… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
The accumulation of misfolded proteins in the human brain is one of the critical features of
many neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease (AD). Assembles of beta …

Tau protein interaction partners and their roles in Alzheimer's disease and other tauopathies

J Sinsky, K Pichlerova, J Hanes - International journal of molecular …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Tau protein plays a critical role in the assembly, stabilization, and modulation of
microtubules, which are important for the normal function of neurons and the brain. In …

Epigenetic upregulation of FKBP5 by aging and stress contributes to NF-κB–driven inflammation and cardiovascular risk

AS Zannas, M Jia, K Hafner… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Aging and psychosocial stress are associated with increased inflammation and disease risk,
but the underlying molecular mechanisms are unclear. Because both aging and stress are …

Single-nucleus transcriptomic profiling of human orbitofrontal cortex reveals convergent effects of aging and psychiatric disease

AS Fröhlich, N Gerstner, M Gagliardi, M Ködel… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Aging is a complex biological process and represents the largest risk factor for
neurodegenerative disorders. The risk for neurodegenerative disorders is also increased in …

The role of protein clearance mechanisms in organismal ageing and age-related diseases

D Vilchez, I Saez, A Dillin - Nature communications, 2014 - nature.com
The ability to maintain a functional proteome, or proteostasis, declines during the ageing
process. Damaged and misfolded proteins accumulate with age, impairing cell function and …

Progesterone as an anti-inflammatory drug and immunomodulator: new aspects in hormonal regulation of the inflammation

TA Fedotcheva, NI Fedotcheva, NL Shimanovsky - Biomolecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
The specific regulation of inflammatory processes by steroid hormones has been actively
studied in recent years, especially by progesterone (P4) and progestins. The mechanisms of …

Tau protein modifications and interactions: their role in function and dysfunction

A Mietelska-Porowska, U Wasik, M Goras… - International journal of …, 2014 - mdpi.com
Tau protein is abundant in the central nervous system and involved in microtubule assembly
and stabilization. It is predominantly associated with axonal microtubules and present at …