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Tau-dependent microtubule disassembly initiated by prefibrillar β-amyloid

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King, Michelle E., Kan, Ho-Man, Baas, Peter W., Erisir, Alev, Glabe, Charles G., Bloom, George S.·2006·The Journal of Cell Biology

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Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is defined histopathologically by extracellular β-amyloid (Aβ) fibrils plus intraneuronal tau filaments. Studies of transgenic mice and cultured cells indicate that AD is caused by a pathological cascade in which Aβ lies upstream of tau, but the steps that connect Aβ to tau have remained undefined. We demonstrate that tau confers acute hypersensitivity of microtubules to prefibrillar, extracellular Aβ in nonneuronal cells that express transfected tau and in cultured neurons that express endogenous tau. Prefibrillar Aβ42 was active at submicromolar concentrations, several-fold below those required for equivalent effects of prefibrillar Aβ40, and microtubules were insensitive to fibrillar Aβ. The active region of tau was localized to an N-terminal domain that does not bind microtubules and is not part of the region of tau that assembles into filaments. These results suggest that a seminal cell biological event in AD pathogenesis is acute, tau-dependent loss of microtubule integrity caused by exposure of neurons to readily diffusible Aβ.

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Authors
King, M. E., Kan, H.-M., Baas, P. W., Erisir, A., Glabe, C. G., & Bloom, G. S.
Venue
The Journal of Cell Biology
Published
2006-11-13
Volume
175
Issue
4
Pages
541-546
ISSN
  • 0021-9525 (ISSN-L)
  • 1540-8140
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W2001704669
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217
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9
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Type
journal article
Language
en
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King, M. E., Kan, H.-M., Baas, P. W., Erisir, A., Glabe, C. G., & Bloom, G. S. (2006). Tau-dependent microtubule disassembly initiated by prefibrillar β-amyloid. The Journal of Cell Biology. https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.200605187

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