[HTML][HTML] 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] Tau post-translational modifications: dynamic transformers of tau function, degradation, and aggregation

C Alquezar, S Arya, AW Kao - Frontiers in neurology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Post-translational modifications (PTMs) on tau have long been recognized as affecting
protein function and contributing to neurodegeneration. The explosion of information on …

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 …

ApoE4 markedly exacerbates tau-mediated neurodegeneration in a mouse model of tauopathy

Y Shi, K Yamada, SA Liddelow, ST Smith, L Zhao… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
APOE4 is the strongest genetic risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer disease. ApoE4 increases
brain amyloid-β pathology relative to other ApoE isoforms. However, whether APOE …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

[HTML][HTML] Acetylated tau inhibits chaperone-mediated autophagy and promotes tau pathology propagation in mice

B Caballero, M Bourdenx, E Luengo, A Diaz… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Disrupted homeostasis of the microtubule binding protein tau is a shared feature of a set of
neurodegenerative disorders known as tauopathies. Acetylation of soluble tau is an early …

Frontotemporal dementia

NT Olney, S Spina, BL Miller - Neurologic clinics, 2017 - neurologic.theclinics.com
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) has undergone numerous changes in nomenclature and
categorization schemes since it was first described by Pick in 1892. Presently, FTD …

Primary age-related tauopathy (PART): a common pathology associated with human aging

JF Crary, JQ Trojanowski, JA Schneider… - Acta …, 2014 - Springer
We recommend a new term,“primary age-related tauopathy”(PART), to describe a pathology
that is commonly observed in the brains of aged individuals. Many autopsy studies have …

Critical role of acetylation in tau-mediated neurodegeneration and cognitive deficits

SW Min, X Chen, TE Tracy, Y Li, Y Zhou, C Wang… - Nature medicine, 2015 - nature.com
Tauopathies, including frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and Alzheimer's disease (AD), are
neurodegenerative diseases in which tau fibrils accumulate. Recent evidence supports …

Invited review: neuropathology of tauopathies: principles and practice

GG Kovacs - Neuropathology and applied neurobiology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Tauopathies are clinically, morphologically and biochemically heterogeneous
neurodegenerative diseases characterized by the deposition of abnormal tau protein in the …