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FRONTIERS IN CELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY
Volume 9, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2021.707268
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tau; tauopathy; spread; toxicity; mechanism; Alzheimer's disease
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81904194]
- National Science and Technology Major Project for Essential new drug research and development [2019ZX09301114]
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Tau protein binds to microtubules to promote assembly and stability, but loses this ability in tauopathies, leading to pathological changes like AD. Evidence suggests that tauopathies can spread between cells or connected regions. The complex process involves multiple steps including secretion, cellular uptake, transcellular transfer, and seeding, but the exact mechanisms of tau pathology propagation remain unclear.
Tau is a protein that associates with microtubules (MTs) and promotes their assembly and stability. The protein loses its ability to bind MTs in tauopathies, and detached tau can misfold and induce the pathological changes that characterize Alzheimer's disease (AD). A growing body of evidence indicates that tauopathies can spread between cells or connected regions. Pathological tau transmission in the brain of patients with AD and other tauopathies is due to the spread of various tau species along neuroanatomically connected regions in a prion-like manner. This complex process involves multiple steps of secretion, cellular uptake, transcellular transfer, and/or seeding, but the precise mechanisms of tau pathology propagation remain unclear. This review summarizes the current evidence on the nature of propagative tau species and the possible steps involved in the process of tau pathology spread, including detachment from MTs, degradations, and secretion, and discusses the different mechanisms underlying the spread of tau pathology.
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