Cited by 445Alzheimer's disease research and treatmentsTraumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular DisturbancesTraumatic Brain Injury Research

Antibody against early driver of neurodegeneration cis P-tau blocks brain injury and tauopathy

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Kondo, Asami, Shahpasand, Koorosh, Mannix, Rebekah, Qiu, Jianhua, Moncaster, Juliet, Chen, Chun-Hau, Yao, Yandan, Lin, Yu-Min +14 more·2015·Nature

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Traumatic brain injury (TBI), characterized by acute neurological dysfunction, is one of the best known environmental risk factors for chronic traumatic encephalopathy and Alzheimer's disease, the defining pathologic features of which include tauopathy made of phosphorylated tau protein (P-tau). However, tauopathy has not been detected in the early stages after TBI, and how TBI leads to tauopathy is unknown. Here we find robust cis P-tau pathology after TBI in humans and mice. After TBI in mice and stress in vitro, neurons acutely produce cis P-tau, which disrupts axonal microtubule networks and mitochondrial transport, spreads to other neurons, and leads to apoptosis. This process, which we term 'cistauosis', appears long before other tauopathy. Treating TBI mice with cis antibody blocks cistauosis, prevents tauopathy development and spread, and restores many TBI-related structural and functional sequelae. Thus, cis P-tau is a major early driver of disease after TBI and leads to tauopathy in chronic traumatic encephalopathy and Alzheimer's disease. The cis antibody may be further developed to detect and treat TBI, and prevent progressive neurodegeneration after injury.

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Kondo, A., Shahpasand, K., Mannix, R., Qiu, J., Moncaster, J., Chen, C.-H., Yao, Y., Lin, Y.-M., Driver, J. A., Sun, Y., Wei, S., Luo, M.-L., Albayram, O., Huang, P., Rotenberg, A., Ryo, A., Goldstein, L. E., Pascual-Leone, A., McKee, A. C., Meehan, W., Zhou, X. Z., & Lu, K. P.
Affiliations
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (US)
  • Boston Children's Hospital (US)
  • Boston University (US)
  • Yokohama City University (JP)
Corresponding author
  • Zhou, Xiao Zhen
  • Lu, Kun Ping
Venue
Nature
Published
2015-07
Volume
523
Issue
7561
Pages
431-436
ISSN
  • 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
  • 1476-4687
OpenAlex
W1590917599
Cited by
445
References
62
Citations by year
2026: 11 · 2025: 24 · 2024: 40 · 2023: 42 · 2022: 38 · 2021: 35 · 2020: 54 · 2019: 44 · 2018: 52 · 2017: 47 · 2016: 48 · 2015: 10
FWCI
38.57
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Nature (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institute on Aging (R01AG029385, R01AG046319, P30AG013846, P30-AG13846))
  • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (R01HL111430)
  • National Cancer Institute (R01CA167677)
  • National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (U01NS086659)
  • National Center for Research Resources (S10RR017927)
  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (T32HD040128)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Neurology › Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Traumatic Brain Injury Research
Keywords
traumatic brain injury, tauopathy, phosphorylated tau, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, Alzheimer's disease, neurodegeneration, mitochondrial transport, neuronal apoptosis, antibody therapy, tau spread
MeSH terms
Alzheimer Disease, Animals, Antibodies, Monoclonal, Antibody Affinity, Epitopes, Axons, Brain, Brain Injuries, Disease Models, Animal, Female, Humans, Male, Phosphoproteins, Stress, Physiological, tau Proteins, Tauopathies, Mice

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