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ArticleFrontiers in cellular neuroscience2018

The Involvement of Aβ42 and Tau in Nucleolar and Protein Synthesis Machinery Dysfunction.

Mahmoud B Maina, Laura J Bailey, Aidan J Doherty, Louise C Serpell

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Article in Frontiers in cellular neuroscience, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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25 citing papers in PubMed, 41 citations in OpenAlex.

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  16. Non-Canonical Roles of Tau and Their Contribution to Synaptic Dysfunction.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021
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  18. Altered ribosomal function and protein synthesis caused by tau.Acta neuropathologica communications · 2021
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4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Mahmoud B MainaSchool of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom.
Laura J BaileyGenome Damage and Stability Centre, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom.
Aidan J DohertyGenome Damage and Stability Centre, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom.
Louise C SerpellSchool of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom.
University of Sussex · GBGombe State University · NG

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/H019723/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia and is distinguished from other dementias by observation of extracellular Amyloid-β (Aβ) plaques and intracellular neurofibrillary tangles, comprised of fibrils of Aβ and tau protein, respectively. At early stages, AD is characterized by minimal neurodegeneration, oxidative stress, nucleolar stress, and altered protein synthesis machinery. It is generally believed that Aβ oligomers are the neurotoxic species and their levels in the AD brain correlate with the severity of dementia suggesting that they play a critical role in the pathogenesis of the disease. Here, we show that the incubation of differentiated human neuroblastoma cells (SHSY5Y) with freshly prepared Aβ42 oligomers initially resulted in oxidative stress and subtle nucleolar stress in the absence of DNA damage or cell death. The presence of exogenous Aβ oligomers resulted in altered nuclear tau levels as well as phosphorylation state, leading to altered distribution of nucleolar tau associated with nucleolar stress. These markers of cellular dysfunction worsen over time alongside a reduction in ribosomal RNA synthesis and processing, a decrease in global level of newly synthesized RNA and reduced protein synthesis. The interplay between Aβ and tau in AD remains intriguing and Aβ toxicity has been linked to tau phosphorylation and changes in localization. These findings provide evidence for the involvement of Aβ42 effects on nucleolar tau and protein synthesis machinery dysfunction in cultured cells. Protein synthesis dysfunction is observed in mild cognitive impairment and early AD in the absence of significant neuronal death.

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Alzheimer’s diseaseAβ42oxidative stressprotein synthesisrDNA transcriptionRNA synthesisrRNA processingTau

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