期刊
MOLECULAR NEURODEGENERATION
卷 16, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s13024-021-00476-x
关键词
Animal models; Astrocytes; Cryo-EM; MAPT; Microglia; Oligodendroglia; Tau; Tauopathy; Transcriptomics
资金
- National Institutes of Health [R01 AG062348, P30 AG062677, U54-NS100693, UH3-NS104095, R01-AG062348, U19-AG063911]
- Mayo Foundation
- Rainwater Charitable Foundation
Pathological tau can promote aggregation and propagation of endogenous tau, but tauopathies differ in terms of predominant tau isoforms and selective vulnerability of brain regions. Variability in tau pathology in neuronal and glial cells challenges our understanding of tauopathies and the development of therapeutic strategies.
Microtubule-associated protein tau is abnormally aggregated in neuronal and glial cells in a range of neurodegenerative diseases that are collectively referred to as tauopathies. Multiple studies have suggested that pathological tau species may act as a seed that promotes aggregation of endogenous tau in naive cells and contributes to propagation of tau pathology. While they share pathological tau aggregation as a common feature, tauopathies are distinct from one another with respect to predominant tau isoforms that accumulate and the selective vulnerability of brain regions and cell types that have tau inclusions. For instance, primary tauopathies present with glial tau pathology, while it is mostly neuronal in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Also, morphologies of tau inclusions can greatly vary even within the same cell type, suggesting distinct mechanisms or distinct tau conformers in each tauopathy. Neuropathological heterogeneity across tauopathies challenges our understanding of pathophysiology behind tau seeding and aggregation, as well as our efforts to develop effective therapeutic strategies for AD and other tauopathies. In this review, we describe diverse neuropathological features of tau inclusions in neurodegenerative tauopathies and discuss what has been learned from experimental studies with mouse models, advanced transcriptomics, and cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) on the biology underlying cell type-specific tau pathology.
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