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Tau filaments in neurodegenerative diseases

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Goedert, Michel·2018·FEBS Letters

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The ordered assembly of Tau protein into abnormal filamentous inclusions is a defining characteristic of many human neurodegenerative diseases. Thirty years ago, we reported that Tau is an integral component of the intraneuronal filaments of Alzheimer's disease. All six brain Tau isoforms make up those filaments. Twenty years ago, we and others showed that mutations in MAPT, the Tau gene, cause familial forms of frontotemporal dementia, thus proving that dysfunction of Tau protein is sufficient to cause neurodegeneration and dementia. More recently, we showed that high‐resolution structures of Tau filaments from human brain can be determined by electron cryo‐microscopy. These filaments may form the seeds that underlie the prion‐like properties of aggregated tau.

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Authors
Goedert, M.
Affiliations
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (GB)
Corresponding author
Goedert, Michel
Venue
FEBS Letters
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2018-07
Volume
592
Issue
14
Pages
2383-2391
ISSN
  • 0014-5793 (ISSN-L)
  • 1873-3468
OpenAlex
W2803767896
Cited by
127
References
66
Citations by year
2026: 4 · 2025: 14 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 22 · 2022: 22 · 2021: 21 · 2020: 19 · 2019: 13 · 2018: 3
FWCI
1.84
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Locations
  • FEBS Letters (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding
Keywords
tau protein, tau filaments, neurodegenerative diseases, Alzheimer's disease, frontotemporal dementia, MAPT mutations, tau isoforms, protein aggregation, prion-like seeding
MeSH terms
Alzheimer Disease, Animals, Brain, Humans, tau Proteins, Neurodegenerative Diseases, Protein Isoforms, Protein Aggregation, Pathological, Protein Aggregates

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