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![Fig 1 Tau PhotoActivatable Ribonucleoside-enhanced Individual-nucleotide resolution UV Cross-Linking ImmunoPrecipitation and high-throughput sequencing (PAR-iCLIP) in tau-expressing human embryonic kidney cells (HEK) and human-induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC) -derived neurons. Phosphor images in the blue frames (A-C) show 32P-labelled RNA crosslinked to tau protein in HEK cells expressing tau (A-B) and in hiPSC-derived neurons with endogenous tau (C). PAR-iCLIP in HEK cells expressing wild-type tau (A, lane 2) or tau P301L-CFP (B, lane 2; nota bene: the fused cyan fluorescent protein [CFP] retards the migration of tau). (C) PAR-iCLIP of endogenous wild-type tau in hiPSC-derived neurons (C, lane 2). The antibodies anti-tau HJ 8.5, anti-green fluorescence protein (GFP) and anti- Cyclin–dependent kinase 5 (CDK5) were used for protein precipitation. No RNase was added, unless specified. PAR-iCLIP with GFP as a control (A-B, lane 1), with CDK5 as a control (C, lane 3) and no UV control (C, lane 1). A small RNA signal was visible in the absence of cross-linking (no UV control) in hiPSC-derived neurons (C, lane 1), suggesting a small portion of RNA may associate with tau in vitro after cell lysis. The RNA-protein complexes from Cross-Linking ImmunoPrecipitation (CLIP) marked by rectangles were cut from the blot for DNA library preparation. Note that 2 regions of GFP and CDK5 were cut out as sequencing controls in which the lower molecular weight (MW) band corresponds to GFP or CDK5. (D-E) Percentage of tau-CLIP reads that are mapped to 8 human genome regions in HEK cells (D) and hiPSC-derived neurons (E). (F-G) Enrichment of tRNA in tau-CLIP of HEK cells (F) and hiPSC-derived neurons (G) as discussed in text. The numerical data used in (D-G) are included in S1 Data.](/paper-figures/84b6e0de58db4f33b9abf145f892ea79/rna-stores-tau-reversibly-in-complex-coacervates-figure-1.jpg)

![Fig 3 Tau tRNA binding by gel shift assay and isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC). (A) Direct titration experiment shows 4R2N tau induces a mobility shift in tRNALys. To determine the Kd value, direct titration experiment was done, which requires trace RNA concentrations to meet the assumption used in the equation that derives the Kd value. The assumption is that the total protein concentration is approximately the free protein concentration at equilibrium, and that protein binding to RNA is negligible. In the direct titration experiments 26 nM, tRNA was used and protein concentration spans from 20 nM to 2 μM. (B) The fraction of bound tRNA by 4R2N tau plotted as a function of the monomeric tau concentration and fit to the Hill equation, y = 1 / [1 + (Kd / x)n]. (C) Yeast tRNA was titrated into solutions of 4R2N tau in an ITC experiment. The top panel shows the raw incremental-titration. The area under each peak is integrated and plotted against the tRNA:tau molar ratio and fitted to an independent binding model (the bottom panel), as discussed in Materials and methods. (B-C) SEM is reported from n = 3. (D) The stoichiometric binding experiments were performed by varying the tau:RNA molar ratio at a constant 2.6 μM concentration of tRNA, which approximates the saturation concentration (more than 5 times the Kd of 460 nM). The representative data of 3 independent experiments are shown. (E) Fraction of bound tRNA from the different bands in (D) is plotted over the molar tau:tRNA ratio. (F) Fraction of bound tau plotted as a function of tau:tRNA molar ratios and compared to the theoretical saturation binding curves (dotted lines) with protein:RNA molar stoichiometries of 1:1 to 6:1. The theoretical curves serve the purpose showing that multiple tau molecules bind tRNA with increasing tau concentrations, while the model is not meant to fit the data, given that multiple populations with different tau:tRNA ratios will coexist. The numerical data used in (B), (C), (E), and (F) are included in S1 Data.](/paper-figures/4207b688258c4aa384e0f1b04b6e62c2/rna-stores-tau-reversibly-in-complex-coacervates-figure-3.jpg)

![Fig 5 Tau-RNA droplets form a complex coacervate phase. (A) Representative bright-field images of tau-tRNA droplet samples at room temperature with varying [NaCl]. (B) Droplet coverage (in %) with poly(A) or tRNA in room temperature with varying [NaCl]. Δtau187:RNA in (A) and (B) were maintained at a mass ratio of 7:1 (corresponding to a charge ratio of 1.2:1) and a total mass concentration of 2 mg/ml. (C) Droplet coverage with poly(A) or tRNA with varying Δtau187: RNA charge ratios. The total mass concentrations are indicated in the legends. Samples made by mixing of 80 μM Δtau187 with 222 μg/ml poly(A)/tRNA or 161 μM Δtau187 with 444 μg/ml tRNA gave the highest droplet coverage (%), which correspond to charge ratio of 1.3–1.2 between tau and RNA. Error bars in (B) and (C) represent the standard deviation from n = 3. (D) Representative bright-field images of tau-RNA droplets as a function of incubation temperature. To record these images, the temperature was ramped from 19ºC to 25°C at 1°C per minute to acquire confocal images with bright field illumination. The samples for these images are generated from 100 μM tau mixed with poly(U) at approximately 1:1 charge ratio in the presence of 30 mM NaCl. (E) Representative bright-field images of tau-RNA droplet samples incubated at 37°C under otherwise different sample conditions. The concentration for tau, poly(U) RNA and NaCl are (i) 5 μM, 15 μg/ml, 0 mM; (ii) 5 μM, 15 μg/ml, 100 mM; (iii) 2.5 μM, 7.5 μg/ml, 100 mM; (iv) 1 μM, 3 μg/ml, 100 mM. Arrows highlight some of the droplets in images (ii) and (iii). Through Fig 5, scale bars are for 50 μm and all samples were prepared with Δtau187/322C in 20 mM ammonium acetate at pH 7.0. The numerical data used in (B) and (C) are included in S1 Data.](/paper-figures/1e56fdb090774fa98cf0cb316658e930/rna-stores-tau-reversibly-in-complex-coacervates-figure-5.jpg)


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“The only published cross-linking and immunoprecipitation sequencing (CLIP-seq) experiment for identification of tau-associated RNAs demonstrated a strong enrichment for tRNAs 22 , but the physiological significance of this interaction remains unclear.”
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“Tau phase separation can also be induced by a coacervation mechanism, whereby oppositely charged between tau and RNA spontaneously organize into higher order biomolecular condensates.13,14”
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“In the case of Tau, polyanionic RNA (or heparin; Lin et al, 2020) co‐condensate with the positively charged Tau microtubule‐assembly domain into liquid‐like droplets (Zhang et al, 2017; Lin et al, 2019).”
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“The optimal phase separation condition was observed at a tau-to-RNA concentration ratio corresponding to a charge ratio of approximately one-to-one (Figure S9c).14”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Zhang, X., Lin, Y., Eschmann, N. A., Zhou, H., Rauch, J. N., Hernandez, I., Guzman, E., Kosik, K. S., & Han, S.
- Venue
- PLOS Biology
- Publisher
- Public Library of Science (PLoS)
- Published
- 2017-07-06
- Volume
- 15
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- e2002183
- ISSN
- 1545-7885
- PMC
- PMC5500003
- Cited by
- 302
- References
- 11
- Language
- en
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