Phosphorylation of specific sets of tau isoforms reflects different neurofibrillary degeneration processes
- 21 August 1998
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in FEBS Letters
- Vol. 433 (3) , 201-204
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0014-5793(98)00910-7
Abstract
Tau proteins are the basic components of filaments that accumulate within neurons during neurofibrillary degeneration, a degenerating process with disease-specific phenotypes. This specificity is likely to be sustained by both phosphorylation state and isoform content of tau aggregates that form neuronal inclusions. In the present study, characterization of tau isoforms involved in neurofibrillary degeneration in Alzheimer's disease, Pick's disease, corticobasal degeneration and progressive supra-nuclear palsy was performed. Both analyses by immunoblotting using specific tau antibodies and cell transfection by tau isoform cDNAs allowed us to demonstrate the aggregation of (1) the six hyperphosphorylated tau isoforms in Alzheimer's disease, (2) tau isoforms without exon 10-encoding sequence in Pick's disease and (3) hyperphosphorylated exon 10-tau isoforms in corticobasal degeneration and progressive supranuclear palsy. Thus, neurofibrillary degeneration phenotypes are likely to be related to the phosphorylation of different combinations of tau isoforms (with and/or without exon 10-encoding sequence) in subpopulations of neurons.Keywords
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