Tau: It’s Not What You Think
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Tau is a multifunctional microtubule-associated protein in the neuron. For decades, tau's main function in neurons has been broadly accepted as stabilizing microtubules in the axon; however, this conclusion was reached mainly on the basis of studies performed in vitro and on ectopic expression of tau in non-neuronal cells. The idea has become so prevailing that some disease researchers are even seeking to use microtubule-stabilizing drugs to treat diseases in which tau dissociates from microtubules. Recent work suggests that tau is not a stabilizer of microtubules in the axon, but rather enables axonal microtubules to have long labile domains, in part by outcompeting genuine stabilizers. This new perspective on tau challenges long-standing dogma.
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The actual role of tau in regulating microtubule stability in the axon is not to stabilise axonal microtubules, but rather to allow them to have long labile domains.
“The actual role of tau in regulating microtubule stability in the axon is not to stabilise axonal microtubules, but rather to allow them to have long labile domains [16,17].”
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- Authors
- Baas, P. W., & Qiang, L.
- Affiliations
- Drexel University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Baas, Peter W.
- Venue
- Trends in Cell Biology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2019-06
- Volume
- 29
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 452-461
- ISSN
- 0962-8924 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC6527491
- OpenAlex
- W2929622128
- Cited by
- 123
- References
- 68
- Citations by year
- 2026: 13 · 2025: 16 · 2024: 15 · 2023: 24 · 2022: 14 · 2021: 14 · 2020: 19 · 2019: 8
- FWCI
- 1.62
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Trends in Cell Biology (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (R01 NS28785)
- Department of Defense (W81XWH-17-1-0504)
- Pennsylvania Department of Health
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cell Biology › Microtubule and mitosis dynamics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Neurology › Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
- Keywords
- tau protein, microtubule stabilization, axonal microtubules, microtubule-associated proteins, tauopathy, microtubule-stabilizing drugs, neuronal cytoskeleton
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Humans, Microtubules, Neurons, tau Proteins
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