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Tau Protein Interaction Partners and Their Roles in Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Tauopathies
Tau protein plays a critical role in the assembly, stabilization, and modulation of microtubules, which are important for the normal function of neurons and the brain. In diseased conditions, several pathological modifications of tau protein manifest. These changes lead to tau protein aggregation an...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8431036/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34502116 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms22179207 |
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author | Sinsky, Jakub Pichlerova, Karoline Hanes, Jozef |
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description | Tau protein plays a critical role in the assembly, stabilization, and modulation of microtubules, which are important for the normal function of neurons and the brain. In diseased conditions, several pathological modifications of tau protein manifest. These changes lead to tau protein aggregation and the formation of paired helical filaments (PHF) and neurofibrillary tangles (NFT), which are common hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease and other tauopathies. The accumulation of PHFs and NFTs results in impairment of physiological functions, apoptosis, and neuronal loss, which is reflected as cognitive impairment, and in the late stages of the disease, leads to death. The causes of this pathological transformation of tau protein haven’t been fully understood yet. In both physiological and pathological conditions, tau interacts with several proteins which maintain their proper function or can participate in their pathological modifications. Interaction partners of tau protein and associated molecular pathways can either initiate and drive the tau pathology or can act neuroprotective, by reducing pathological tau proteins or inflammation. In this review, we focus on the tau as a multifunctional protein and its known interacting partners active in regulations of different processes and the roles of these proteins in Alzheimer’s disease and tauopathies. |
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spelling | pubmed-84310362021-09-11 Tau Protein Interaction Partners and Their Roles in Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Tauopathies Sinsky, Jakub Pichlerova, Karoline Hanes, Jozef Int J Mol Sci Review Tau protein plays a critical role in the assembly, stabilization, and modulation of microtubules, which are important for the normal function of neurons and the brain. In diseased conditions, several pathological modifications of tau protein manifest. These changes lead to tau protein aggregation and the formation of paired helical filaments (PHF) and neurofibrillary tangles (NFT), which are common hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease and other tauopathies. The accumulation of PHFs and NFTs results in impairment of physiological functions, apoptosis, and neuronal loss, which is reflected as cognitive impairment, and in the late stages of the disease, leads to death. The causes of this pathological transformation of tau protein haven’t been fully understood yet. In both physiological and pathological conditions, tau interacts with several proteins which maintain their proper function or can participate in their pathological modifications. Interaction partners of tau protein and associated molecular pathways can either initiate and drive the tau pathology or can act neuroprotective, by reducing pathological tau proteins or inflammation. In this review, we focus on the tau as a multifunctional protein and its known interacting partners active in regulations of different processes and the roles of these proteins in Alzheimer’s disease and tauopathies. MDPI 2021-08-26 /pmc/articles/PMC8431036/ /pubmed/34502116 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms22179207 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Sinsky, Jakub Pichlerova, Karoline Hanes, Jozef Tau Protein Interaction Partners and Their Roles in Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Tauopathies |
title | Tau Protein Interaction Partners and Their Roles in Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Tauopathies |
title_full | Tau Protein Interaction Partners and Their Roles in Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Tauopathies |
title_fullStr | Tau Protein Interaction Partners and Their Roles in Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Tauopathies |
title_full_unstemmed | Tau Protein Interaction Partners and Their Roles in Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Tauopathies |
title_short | Tau Protein Interaction Partners and Their Roles in Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Tauopathies |
title_sort | tau protein interaction partners and their roles in alzheimer’s disease and other tauopathies |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8431036/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34502116 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms22179207 |
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