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ArticleMolecular & cellular proteomics : MCP2015

The Human Tau Interactome: Binding to the Ribonucleoproteome, and Impaired Binding of the Proline-to-Leucine Mutant at Position 301 (P301L) to Chaperones and the Proteasome.

C Geeth Gunawardana, Mohadeseh Mehrabian, Xinzhu Wang, Iris Mueller, Isabela B Lubambo, James E N Jonkman, Hansen Wang, Gerold Schmitt-Ulms

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Article in Molecular & cellular proteomics : MCP, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 64 papers.

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64citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

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64 citing papers in PubMed, 123 citations in OpenAlex.

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  13. Inducers and modulators of protein aggregation in Alzheimer's disease - Critical tools for understanding the foundations of aggregate structures.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2025
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  20. ZCCHC17 Modulates Neuronal RNA Splicing and Supports Cognitive Resilience in Alzheimer's Disease.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

C Geeth GunawardanaFrom the ‡Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Toronto, Ontario M5T2S8, Canada;
Mohadeseh MehrabianFrom the ‡Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Toronto, Ontario M5T2S8, Canada; §Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S1A8, Canada;
Xinzhu WangFrom the ‡Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Toronto, Ontario M5T2S8, Canada; §Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S1A8, Canada;
Iris MuellerFrom the ‡Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Toronto, Ontario M5T2S8, Canada;
Isabela B LubamboFrom the ‡Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Toronto, Ontario M5T2S8, Canada;
James E N Jonkman¶Advanced Optical Microscopy Facility, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1L7, Canada.
Hansen WangFrom the ‡Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Toronto, Ontario M5T2S8, Canada;
Gerold Schmitt-UlmsFrom the ‡Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Toronto, Ontario M5T2S8, Canada; §Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S1A8, Canada; g.schmittulms@utoronto.ca.
University of Toronto · CAOccupational Cancer Research Centre · CAUniversity Health Network · CA

Funding

Canadian Institutes of Health Research
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The tau protein is central to the etiology of several neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, a subset of frontotemporal dementias, progressive supranuclear palsy and dementia following traumatic brain injury, yet the proteins it interacts with have not been studied using a systematic discovery approach. Here we employed mild in vivo crosslinking, isobaric labeling, and tandem mass spectrometry to characterize molecular interactions of human tau in a neuroblastoma cell model. The study revealed a robust association of tau with the ribonucleoproteome, including major protein complexes involved in RNA processing and translation, and documented binding of tau to several heat shock proteins, the proteasome and microtubule-associated proteins. Follow-up experiments determined the relative contribution of cellular RNA to the tau interactome and mapped interactions to N- or C-terminal tau domains. We further document that expression of P301L mutant tau disrupts interactions of the C-terminal half of tau with heat shock proteins and the proteasome. The data are consistent with a model whereby a higher propensity of P301L mutant tau to aggregate may reflect a perturbation of its chaperone-assisted stabilization and proteasome-dependent degradation. Finally, using a global proteomics approach, we show that heterologous expression of a tau construct that lacks the C-terminal domain, including the microtubule binding domain, does not cause a discernible shift of the proteome except for a significant direct correlation of steady-state levels of tau and cystatin B.

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AnimalsBinding SitesCell LineCell Line, TumorChlorocebus aethiopsCystatin BEpithelial CellsGene Expression RegulationHeat-Shock ProteinsHEK293 CellsHumansMicrotubule-Associated ProteinsMolecular ChaperonesMolecular Sequence AnnotationMutationNeuronsCSTB protein, humanCystatin BHeat-Shock ProteinsMAPT protein, humanMicrotubule-Associated ProteinsMolecular ChaperonesProteasome Endopeptidase ComplexRibonucleoproteinstau Proteins

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PMID26269332
PMCPMC4638042
OpenAlexW2176134948

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