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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 295, Issue 44, Pages 14807-14825Publisher
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DOI: 10.1074/jbc.RA120.014630
Keywords
brain-derived tau oligomers; tau aggregation; tau oligomeric strains; toxicity; tau protein; tauopathy; small molecule; protein aggregation; oligomer
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- Mitchell Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
- Gillson Longenbaugh Foundation
- National Institutes of Health [R01AG054025, R01NS094557, RFA1AG055771, R01AG060718]
- American Heart Association [17CSA33620007]
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The pathological aggregation of tau plays an important role in Alzheimer's disease and many other related neurodegenerative diseases, collectively referred to as tauopathies. Recent evidence has demonstrated that tau oligomers, small and soluble prefibrillar aggregates, are highly toxic due to their strong ability to seed tau misfolding and propagate the pathology seen across different neurodegenerative diseases. We previously showed that novel curcumin derivatives affect preformed tau oligomer aggregation pathways by promoting the formation of more aggregated and nontoxic tau aggregates. To further investigate their therapeutic potential, we have extended our studies o disease-relevant brain-derived tau oligomers (BDTOs). Herein, using well-characterized BDTOs, isolated from brain tissues of different tauopathies, including Alzheimer's disease, progressive supranuclear palsy, and dementia with Lewy bodies, we found that curcumin derivatives modulate the aggregation state of BDTOs by reshaping them and rescue neurons from BDTO-associated toxicity. Interestingly, compound CL3 showed an effect on the aggregation pattern of BDTOs from different tauopathies, resulting in the formation of less neurotoxic larger tau aggregates with decreased hydrophobicity and seeding propensity. Our results lay the groundwork for potential investigations of the efficacy and beneficial effects of CL3 and other promising compounds for the treatment of tauopathies. Furthermore, CL3 may aid in the development of tau imaging agent for the detection of tau oligomeric strains and differential diagnosis of the tauopathies, thus enabling earlier interventions.
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