Publication Date:
1998-12-04
Description:
Tau proteins aggregate as cytoplasmic inclusions in a number of neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease and hereditary frontotemporal dementia and parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17 (FTDP-17). Over 10 exonic and intronic mutations in the tau gene have been identified in about 20 FTDP-17 families. Analyses of soluble and insoluble tau proteins from brains of FTDP-17 patients indicated that different pathogenic mutations differentially altered distinct biochemical properties and stoichiometry of brain tau isoforms. Functional assays of recombinant tau proteins with different FTDP-17 missense mutations implicated all but one of these mutations in disease pathogenesis by reducing the ability of tau to bind microtubules and promote microtubule assembly.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Hong, M -- Zhukareva, V -- Vogelsberg-Ragaglia, V -- Wszolek, Z -- Reed, L -- Miller, B I -- Geschwind, D H -- Bird, T D -- McKeel, D -- Goate, A -- Morris, J C -- Wilhelmsen, K C -- Schellenberg, G D -- Trojanowski, J Q -- Lee, V M -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Dec 4;282(5395):1914-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9836646" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Alternative Splicing
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Brain/*metabolism
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Cerebellum/metabolism
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Chromosomes, Human, Pair 17
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Dementia/*genetics/metabolism
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Frontal Lobe/metabolism
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Humans
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Microtubules/*metabolism
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Mutation
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Mutation, Missense
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Parkinson Disease, Secondary/*genetics/metabolism
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Phosphorylation
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Protein Isoforms/chemistry/genetics/metabolism
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Recombinant Proteins/metabolism
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Solubility
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Syndrome
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tau Proteins/chemistry/*genetics/*metabolism
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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