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Tau exacerbates excitotoxic brain damage in an animal model of stroke
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Neuronal excitotoxicity induced by aberrant excitation of glutamatergic receptors contributes to brain damage in stroke. Here we show that tau-deficient (tau −/− ) mice are profoundly protected from excitotoxic brain damage and neurological deficits following experimental stroke, using a middle cerebral artery occlusion with reperfusion model. Mechanistically, we show that this protection is due to site-specific inhibition of glutamate-induced and Ras/ERK-mediated toxicity by accumulation of Ras-inhibiting SynGAP1, which resides in a post-synaptic complex with tau. Accordingly, reducing SynGAP1 levels in tau −/− mice abolished the protection from pharmacologically induced excitotoxicity and middle cerebral artery occlusion-induced brain damage. Conversely, over-expression of SynGAP1 prevented excitotoxic ERK activation in wild-type neurons. Our findings suggest that tau mediates excitotoxic Ras/ERK signaling by controlling post-synaptic compartmentalization of SynGAP1.
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“However, these same mechanisms may render neurons vulnerable to excitotoxicity, as tau-dependent Fyn-PSD-95-NMDAR coupling amplifies glutamate receptor activation under pathological conditions [52, 124].”
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- Authors
- Bi, M., Gladbach, A., van Eersel, J., Ittner, A., Przybyla, M., van Hummel, A., Chua, S. W., van der Hoven, J., Lee, W. S., Müller, J., Parmar, J., Jonquieres, G. V., Stefen, H., Guccione, E., Fath, T., Housley, G. D., Klugmann, M., Ke, Y. D., & Ittner, L. M.
- Affiliations
- UNSW Sydney (AU)
- Agency for Science, Technology and Research (SG)
- Corresponding author
- Ittner, Lars M.
- ORCID
- Venue
- Nature Communications
- Published
- 2017-09-07
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 473-473
- ISSN
- 2041-1723 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC5589746
- OpenAlex
- W2751298713
- Cited by
- 167
- References
- 89
- Citations by year
- 2026: 10 · 2025: 14 · 2024: 20 · 2023: 13 · 2022: 22 · 2021: 25 · 2020: 27 · 2019: 22 · 2018: 13 · 2017: 1
- FWCI
- 8.43
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- Nature Communications (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- National University of Singapore (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Funders
- University of New South Wales
- Medical Research Council
- Australian Research Council
- National Health and Medical Research Council
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Neurology › Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
- Keywords
- tau protein, excitotoxicity, stroke, SYNGAP1, Ras/ERK signaling, glutamate receptors, middle cerebral artery occlusion, neuroprotection
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Brain Injuries, Cells, Cultured, Disease Models, Animal, Humans, Male, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Neurons, Synaptosomes, Signal Transduction, tau Proteins, Mice, Knockout, Infarction, Middle Cerebral Artery, Stroke, ras GTPase-Activating Proteins, Gene Expression Profiling
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