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ArticleeLife2019

Targeted degradation of aberrant tau in frontotemporal dementia patient-derived neuronal cell models.

M Catarina Silva, Fleur M Ferguson, Quan Cai, Katherine A Donovan, Ghata Nandi, Debasis Patnaik, Tinghu Zhang, Hai-Tsang Huang, Diane E Lucente, Bradford C Dickerson and 4 more

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Article in eLife, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 140 papers.

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140citing papers in PubMed
13.4field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

140 citing papers in PubMed, 261 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

M Catarina Silva *Chemical Neurobiology Laboratory, Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-5421-6673
Fleur M Ferguson *Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-4091-7617
Quan CaiDepartment of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, United States.
Katherine A DonovanDepartment of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-8539-5106
Ghata NandiChemical Neurobiology Laboratory, Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-7170-8709
Debasis PatnaikChemical Neurobiology Laboratory, Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States.
Tinghu ZhangDepartment of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, United States.
Hai-Tsang HuangDepartment of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-4244-2304
Diane E LucenteMolecular Neurogenetics Unit, Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States.
Bradford C DickersonMGH Frontotemporal Disorders Unit, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, United States.
Timothy J MitchisonDepartment of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States.
Eric S FischerDepartment of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-7337-6306
Nathanael S GrayDepartment of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-5354-7403
Stephen J HaggartyChemical Neurobiology Laboratory, Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-7872-168X
Harvard University · USDana-Farber Cancer Institute · US

Funding

Degrading therapeutically important kinases using small moleculesR01CA218278 · NCI · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI Eric Sebastian Fischer, NATHANAEL Schiander GRAY · 2019 to 2026
$4.6M
The molecular basis of IMiD induced neo-substrate recruitment to the CRL4CRBN ubiquitin E3 ligase.R01CA214608 · NCI · DANA-FARBER CANCER INST · PI Eric Sebastian Fischer · 2017 to 2026
$4.0M
Autosomal Dominant FTLD Tauopathy Patient-Specific Stem Cell ModelsR21NS085487 · NINDS · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI DICKERSON, BRADFORD C, HAGGARTY, STEPHEN J · 2014 to 2015
$479k
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA214608NCI NIH HHS R01 CA218278NIH HHS R01CA214608NIH HHS R01CA218278NIH HHS R21NS085487NINDS NIH HHS R21 NS085487
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tauopathies are neurodegenerative diseases characterized by aberrant forms of tau protein accumulation leading to neuronal death in focal brain areas. Positron emission tomography (PET) tracers that bind to pathological tau are used in diagnosis, but there are no current therapies to eliminate these tau species. We employed targeted protein degradation technology to convert a tau PET-probe into a functional degrader of pathogenic tau. The hetero-bifunctional molecule QC-01-175 was designed to engage both tau and Cereblon (CRBN), a substrate-receptor for the E3-ubiquitin ligase CRL4

Indexed as

ProteolysisCell LineFrontotemporal DementiaHumansModels, TheoreticalNeuronsNeuroprotective AgentsTauopathiestau ProteinsNeuroprotective Agentstau Proteinsbiochemistrychemical biologydegraderfrontotemporal dementiahumanhuman neuronal cell modelsneurosciencetau

Identifiers

PMID30907729
PMCPMC6450673
OpenAlexW2924474406

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