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Curcumin Inhibits Tau Aggregation and Disintegrates Preformed Tau Filaments in vitro

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JOURNAL OF ALZHEIMERS DISEASE
卷 60, 期 3, 页码 999-1014

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IOS PRESS
DOI: 10.3233/JAD-170351

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Alzheimer's disease; curcumin; microtubule-associated proteins; neurodegeneration; tau

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  1. Department of Biotechnology, Government of India
  2. TATA Innovation from Department of Biotechnology
  3. INSPIRE from Department Science & Technology Government of India

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The pathological aggregation of tau is a common feature of most of the neuronal disorders including frontotemporal dementia, Parkinson's disease, and Alzheimer's disease. The inhibition of tau aggregation is considered to be one of the important strategies for treating these neurodegenerative diseases. Curcumin, a natural polyphenolic molecule, has been reported to have neuroprotective ability. In this work, curcumin was found to bind to adult tau and fetal tau with a dissociation constant of 3.3 +/- 0.4 and 8 +/- 1 mu M, respectively. Molecular docking studies indicated a putative binding site of curcumin in the microtubule-binding region of tau. Using several complementary techniques, including dynamic light scattering, thioflavin S fluorescence, 90 degrees light scattering, electron microscopy, and atomic force microscopy, curcumin was found to inhibit the aggregation of tau. The dynamic light scattering analysis and atomic force microscopic images revealed that curcumin inhibits the oligomerization of tau. Curcumin also disintegrated preformed tau oligomers. Using Far-UV circular dichroism, curcumin was found to inhibit the beta-sheets formation in tau indicating that curcumin inhibits an initial step of tau aggregation. In addition, curcumin inhibited tau fibril formation. Furthermore, the effect of curcumin on the preformed tau filaments was analyzed by atomic force microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, and 90 degrees light scattering. Curcumin treatment disintegrated preformed tau filaments. The results indicated that curcumin inhibited the oligomerization of tau and could disaggregate tau filaments.

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