Autor: |
Eleanor K. Pickett, Abigail G. Herrmann, Jamie McQueen, Kimberly Abt, Owen Dando, Jane Tulloch, Pooja Jain, Sophie Dunnett, Sadaf Sohrabi, Maria P. Fjeldstad, Will Calkin, Leo Murison, Rosemary J. Jackson, Makis Tzioras, Anna Stevenson, Marie d’Orange, Monique Hooley, Caitlin Davies, Marti Colom-Cadena, Alejandro Anton-Fernandez, Declan King, Iris Oren, Jamie Rose, Chris-Anne McKenzie, Elizabeth Allison, Colin Smith, Oliver Hardt, Christopher M. Henstridge, Giles E. Hardingham, Tara L. Spires-Jones |
Jazyk: |
angličtina |
Rok vydání: |
2019 |
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Zdroj: |
Cell Reports, Vol 29, Iss 11, Pp 3592-3604.e5 (2019) |
Druh dokumentu: |
article |
ISSN: |
2211-1247 |
DOI: |
10.1016/j.celrep.2019.11.044 |
Popis: |
Summary: A key knowledge gap blocking development of effective therapeutics for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the lack of understanding of how amyloid beta (Aβ) peptide and pathological forms of the tau protein cooperate in causing disease phenotypes. Within a mouse tau-deficient background, we probed the molecular, cellular, and behavioral disruption triggered by the influence of wild-type human tau on human Aβ-induced pathology. We find that Aβ and tau work cooperatively to cause a hyperactivity behavioral phenotype and to cause downregulation of transcription of genes involved in synaptic function. In both our mouse model and human postmortem tissue, we observe accumulation of pathological tau in synapses, supporting the potential importance of synaptic tau. Importantly, tau reduction in the mice initiated after behavioral deficits emerge corrects behavioral deficits, reduces synaptic tau levels, and substantially reverses transcriptional perturbations, suggesting that lowering synaptic tau levels may be beneficial in AD. : One of the mysteries of Alzheimer’s disease is how the two key pathological proteins, amyloid beta and tau, interact. Pickett et al. use a mouse model to show that these proteins cooperate to change behavior and gene expression and that these phenotypes recover when tau levels are lowered. Keywords: Alzheimer, synapse, amyloid beta, tau, array tomography, microglia |
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