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Transmission and spreading of tauopathy in transgenic mouse brain

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Hyperphosphorylated tau makes up the filamentous intracellular inclusions of several neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease. In the disease process, neuronal tau inclusions first appear in the transentorhinal cortex from where they seem to spread to the hippocampal formation and neocortex. Cognitive impairment becomes manifest when inclusions reach the hippocampus, with abundant neocortical tau inclusions and extracellular beta-amyloid deposits being the defining pathological hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease. An abundance of tau inclusions, in the absence of beta-amyloid deposits, defines Pick's disease, progressive supranuclear palsy, corticobasal degeneration and other diseases. Tau mutations cause familial forms of frontotemporal dementia, establishing that tau protein dysfunction is sufficient to cause neurodegeneration and dementia. Thus, transgenic mice expressing mutant (for example, P301S) human tau in nerve cells show the essential features of tauopathies, including neurodegeneration and abundant filaments made of hyperphosphorylated tau protein. By contrast, mouse lines expressing single isoforms of wild-type human tau do not produce tau filaments or show neurodegeneration. Here we have used tau-expressing lines to investigate whether experimental tauopathy can be transmitted. We show that injection of brain extract from mutant P301S tau-expressing mice into the brain of transgenic wild-type tau-expressing animals induces assembly of wild-type human tau into filaments and spreading of pathology from the site of injection to neighbouring brain regions.

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Authors
Clavaguera, F., Bolmont, T., Crowther, R. A., Abramowski, D., Frank, S., Probst, A., Fraser, G., Stalder, A. K., Beibel, M., Staufenbiel, M., Jucker, M., Goedert, M., & Tolnay, M.
Affiliations
  • University of Basel (CH)
  • Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research (DE)
  • MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (GB)
  • University Hospital of Basel (CH)
  • Novartis (Switzerland) (CH)
Corresponding author
  • Goedert, Michel
  • Tolnay, Markus
Venue
Nature Cell Biology
Published
2009-06-07
Volume
11
Issue
7
Pages
909-913
ISSN
  • 1465-7392 (ISSN-L)
  • 1476-4679
OpenAlex
W2099340107
Cited by
1,803
References
36
Citations by year
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FWCI
56.34
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Locations
  • Nature Cell Biology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) (submittedVersion)
  • Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
Funders
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (120261)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Clinical Neurology › Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding
Keywords
tauopathy, tau protein, hyperphosphorylated tau, transgenic mice, Alzheimer's disease, Pick's disease, progressive supranuclear palsy, corticobasal degeneration, frontotemporal dementia, neurodegeneration, transentorhinal cortex, hippocampus
MeSH terms
Animals, Brain, Humans, Immunohistochemistry, Mice, Transgenic, Blotting, Western, tau Proteins, Tauopathies, Mice

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