Regulation of phosphorylation of tau by cyclin‐dependent kinase 5 and glycogen synthase kinase‐3 at substrate level
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- 5 October 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in FEBS Letters
- Vol. 580 (25) , 5925-5933
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.febslet.2006.09.060
Abstract
Microtubule associated protein tau, which is expressed in six alternatively spliced molecular isoforms in human brain, is abnormally hyperphosphorylated in Alzheimer disease and related tauopathies. Here, we show (i) that GSK‐3α and neither GSK‐3β nor cdk5 can phosphorylate tau at Ser262 and phosphorylation at Ser235 by cdk5 primes phosphorylation at Thr231 by GSK‐3α/β; (ii) that tau isoforms with two N‐terminal inserts (τ 4L, τ 3L) are phosphorylated by cdk5 plus GSK‐3 at Thr231 markedly more than isoforms lacking these inserts (τ 4, τ 3); and (iii) that Thr231 is phosphorylated ∼50% more in free tau than in microtubule‐bound tau, and the phosphorylation at this site results in the dissociation of tau from microtubules. These findings suggest that the phosphorylation of tau at Thr231 and Ser262 by cdk5 plus GSK‐3, which inhibits its normal biological activity, is regulated both by its amino terminal inserts and its physical state.Keywords
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