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 …

Tau-targeting therapies for Alzheimer disease: current status and future directions

EE Congdon, C Ji, AM Tetlow, Y Jiang… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Alzheimer disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia in older individuals. AD is
characterized pathologically by amyloid-β (Aβ) plaques and tau neurofibrillary tangles in the …

Roles of tau protein in health and disease

T Guo, W Noble, DP Hanger - Acta neuropathologica, 2017 - Springer
Tau is well established as a microtubule-associated protein in neurons. However, under
pathological conditions, aberrant assembly of tau into insoluble aggregates is accompanied …

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) …

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 …

Secretion of tau via an unconventional non-vesicular mechanism

M Merezhko, CA Brunello, X Yan, H Vihinen, E Jokitalo… - Cell reports, 2018 - cell.com
Tauopathies are characterized by cerebral accumulation of Tau protein aggregates that
appear to spread throughout the brain via a cell-to-cell transmission process that includes …

Langmuir monolayers as models to study processes at membrane surfaces

C Stefaniu, G Brezesinski, H Möhwald - Advances in colloid and interface …, 2014 - Elsevier
The use of new sophisticated and highly surface sensitive techniques as synchrotron based
X-ray scattering techniques and in-house infrared reflection absorption spectroscopy …

Hyperphosphorylated tau self-assembles into amorphous aggregates eliciting TLR4-dependent responses

JX Meng, Y Zhang, D Saman, AM Haider, S De… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Soluble aggregates of the microtubule-associated protein tau have been challenging to
assemble and characterize, despite their important role in the development of tauopathies …

Neuronal uptake of tau/pS422 antibody and reduced progression of tau pathology in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease

L Collin, B Bohrmann, U Göpfert, K Oroszlan-Szovik… - Brain, 2014 - academic.oup.com
The severity of tau pathology in Alzheimer's disease brain correlates closely with disease
progression. Tau immunotherapy has therefore been proposed as a new therapeutic …

Discovery and characterization of stable and toxic Tau/phospholipid oligomeric complexes

N Ait-Bouziad, G Lv, AL Mahul-Mellier, S Xiao… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
The microtubule-associated protein Tau plays a central role in the pathogenesis of
Alzheimer's disease. Although Tau interaction with membranes is thought to affect some of …