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Photodynamic studies reveal rapid formation and appreciable turnover of tau inclusions

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ACTA NEUROPATHOLOGICA
卷 141, 期 3, 页码 359-381

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SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00401-021-02264-9

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Microtubule-associated protein tau; Recombinant adeno-associated viruses; Tau inclusion turnover; Brain slice culture; Optical pulse labeling

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  1. Brightfocus Foundation fellowship [A2018149F]
  2. Race Against Dementia Alzheimer's Research UK fellowship [ARUK-RADF2019A-003]
  3. NIH [U01AG046139 P50AG047266, P30AG066506, RF1AG064914]
  4. Stop AD now fund

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In tauopathy BSC models, tau inclusions typically form within 12-96 hours and show appreciable turnover with an average half-life of about 1 week when newly formed. As BSCs with inclusions age in culture, turnover of tau inclusions continues but the half-lives increase, indicating that individual tau inclusions can be long-lived structures. The data suggest that tau inclusions are dynamic structures with turnover, rather than permanent 'tombstones'.
Accumulation of the tau protein in fibrillar intracellular aggregates is a defining feature of multiple neurodegenerative diseases collectively referred to as tauopathies. Despite intensive study of tau, there is limited information on the formation and clearance dynamics of tau inclusions. Using rAAV vectors to mediate expression of Dendra2-tagged human wild-type, P301L and pro-aggregant P301L/S320F tau proteins, with and without the addition of exogenous tau fibrillar seeds, we evaluated tau inclusion dynamics in organotypic brain slice culture (BSC) models using long-term optical pulse labeling methodology. Our studies reveal that tau inclusions typically form in 12-96 h in tauopathy BSC models. Unexpectedly, we demonstrate appreciable turnover of tau within inclusions with an average half-life of similar to 1 week when inclusions are newly formed. When BSCs with inclusions are aged in culture for extended periods, tau inclusions continue to turnover, but their half-lives increase to similar to 2 weeks and similar to 3 weeks after 1 and 2 months in culture, respectively. Individual tau inclusions can be long-lived structures that can persist for months in these BSC models and for even longer in the human brain. However, our data indicate that tau inclusions, are not 'tombstones', but dynamic structures with appreciable turnover. Understanding the cellular processes mediating this inclusion turnover may lead to new therapeutic strategies that could reverse pathological tau inclusion formation.

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