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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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“The pathogenic tau can be released from diseased neurons, then uptake by previously unaffected normal neurons, inducing pathogenic tau production in normal neurons.”
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“Proteopathic tau seeds are capable of entering a cell and promoting aggregation in a prion-like manner (Clavaguera et al., 2009; Frost et al., 2009).”
From Network analysis identifies strain-dependent response to tau and tau seeding-associated genes (2023) · cites this paper as Clavaguera et al., 2009
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“inoculation of mice with tauopathy homogenates produces local pathology that spreads beyond the injection site (Clavaguera et al., 2009).”
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“This may be important as we know that tau aggregates can transfer and propagate/spread within synaptic circuits (Clavaguera et al., 2009, de Calignon et al., 2012).”
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“We are thus unable to explain how Aβ peptides—despite being a part of the amyloid cascade—may participate in the neuron-to-neuron propagation of Tau pathology [20].”
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“According to the amyloid cascade hypothesis, Aβ peptides are neurotoxic and supposed to lead to or accentuate neuron-to-neuron propagation of Tau pathology—leading to neuronal death—by a still unknown mechanism [20].”
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“The failure of these candidate drugs to date to show any improvements in the human condition has caused a shift in interest to other therapeutic pathways (Clavaguera et al., 2009).”
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“Increasing evidence suggests the transmission of tau pathology is mediated by the release, uptake, and trafficking of pathogenic or misfolded tau aggregates within synaptically connected neurons9,10.”
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“seeded synthetic tau fibrils, or brain extracts from tau transgenic mice or human patients with tauopathy injected into the brain of tau transgenic or WT mice was found to induce pathological tau spreading at sites distal to the injection site [232–235].”
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“The transfer of abnormal misfolded proteins, including tau and Aβ, has a common feature of the pathological propagation between cells [42, 56].”
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“Another recent study reported that brain extracts from NFT-bearing mouse brain injected in wild-type tau expressing mice induces seeding of tau fibrils in neurons (Clavaguera et al., 2009).”
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“In living mouse brain, intracortical injections of tau aggregates seed tau fibrillization in neurons carrying the human transgene (Clavaguera et al., 2009).”
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“Using a paradigm similar to in vivo Aβ-seeding, neurofibrillary (tau) tangles can be exogenously induced by the intracerebral infusion of brain extract containing abnormal tau filaments into mice bearing a human tau transgene63.”
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“The current clinical trial literature is compatible with the idea that AβP-related substances kindle a self-propagating process related to neocortical NFTs, as has been hypothesized (266-269).”
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Metadata
- 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
- ORCID
- Venue
- Nature Cell Biology
- Published
- 2009-06-07
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 909-913
- ISSN
- 1465-7392 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4679
- PMC
- PMC2726961
- OpenAlex
- W2099340107
- Cited by
- 1,803
- References
- 36
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- FWCI
- 56.34
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Nature Cell Biology (publishedVersion)
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- 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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