Molecular pathology of neurodegenerative diseases by cryo-EM of amyloids

SHW Scheres, B Ryskeldi-Falcon, M Goedert - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Abnormal assembly of tau, α-synuclein, TDP-43 and amyloid-β proteins into amyloid
filaments defines most human neurodegenerative diseases. Genetics provides a direct link …

Frontotemporal lobar degeneration

M Grossman, WW Seeley, AL Boxer, AE Hillis… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) is one of the most common causes of early-onset
dementia and presents with early social–emotional–behavioural and/or language changes …

Structure-based classification of tauopathies

Y Shi, W Zhang, Y Yang, AG Murzin, B Falcon… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The ordered assembly of tau protein into filaments characterizes several neurodegenerative
diseases, which are called tauopathies. It was previously reported that, by cryo-electron …

[HTML][HTML] Tau PTM profiles identify patient heterogeneity and stages of Alzheimer's disease

H Wesseling, W Mair, M Kumar, CN Schlaffner, S Tang… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
To elucidate the role of Tau isoforms and post-translational modification (PTM) stoichiometry
in Alzheimer's disease (AD), we generated a high-resolution quantitative proteomics map of …

Phosphorylated tau in Alzheimer's disease and other tauopathies

P Rawat, U Sehar, J Bisht, A Selman… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the leading cause of dementia in elderly people. Amyloid beta
(Aβ) deposits and neurofibrillary tangles are the major pathological features in an …

[HTML][HTML] Phase separation and neurodegenerative diseases: a disturbance in the force

A Zbinden, M Pérez-Berlanga, P De Rossi… - Developmental cell, 2020 - cell.com
Protein aggregation is the main hallmark of neurodegenerative diseases. Many proteins
found in pathological inclusions are known to undergo liquid-liquid phase separation, a …

Proteomic landscape of Alzheimer's Disease: novel insights into pathogenesis and biomarker discovery

B Bai, D Vanderwall, Y Li, X Wang, S Poudel… - Molecular …, 2021 - Springer
Mass spectrometry-based proteomics empowers deep profiling of proteome and protein
posttranslational modifications (PTMs) in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Here we review the …

[HTML][HTML] Reconsideration of amyloid hypothesis and tau hypothesis in Alzheimer's disease

F Kametani, M Hasegawa - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The so-called amyloid hypothesis, that the accumulation and deposition of oligomeric or
fibrillar amyloid β (Aβ) peptide is the primary cause of Alzheimer's disease (AD), has been …

Cryo-EM structures of tau filaments

SHW Scheres, W Zhang, B Falcon… - Current Opinion in …, 2020 - Elsevier
Highlights•Cryo-EM may be used to determine atomic structures of amyloid filaments
extracted from human brain tissue.•Unique protofilament folds characterise tau filaments …

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) …