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ArticleeLife2019

Frontotemporal dementia mutant Tau promotes aberrant Fyn nanoclustering in hippocampal dendritic spines.

Pranesh Padmanabhan, Ramón Martínez-Mármol, Di Xia, Jürgen Götz, Frédéric A Meunier

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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 37 papers.

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37citing papers in PubMed
4.7field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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37 citing papers in PubMed, 65 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Pranesh Padmanabhan *Clem Jones Centre for Ageing Dementia Research (CJCADR), Queensland Brain Institute (QBI), University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-5569-8731
Ramón Martínez-Mármol *Clem Jones Centre for Ageing Dementia Research (CJCADR), Queensland Brain Institute (QBI), University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
Di XiaClem Jones Centre for Ageing Dementia Research (CJCADR), Queensland Brain Institute (QBI), University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
Jürgen GötzClem Jones Centre for Ageing Dementia Research (CJCADR), Queensland Brain Institute (QBI), University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-8501-7896
Frédéric A MeunierClem Jones Centre for Ageing Dementia Research (CJCADR), Queensland Brain Institute (QBI), University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-6400-1107
The University of Queensland · AU

Funding

Australian Research Council LE130100078Federal Government of Australia ACT900116National Health and Medical Research Council GNT1060075National Health and Medical Research Council GNT1127999National Health and Medical Research Council GNT1145580University of Queensland Postdoctoral fellowship
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Src kinase Fyn plays critical roles in memory formation and Alzheimer's disease. Its targeting to neuronal dendrites is regulated by Tau via an unknown mechanism. As nanoclustering is essential for efficient signaling, we used single-molecule tracking to characterize the nanoscale distribution of Fyn in mouse hippocampal neurons, and manipulated the expression of Tau to test whether it controls Fyn nanoscale organization. We found that dendritic Fyn exhibits at least three distinct motion states, two of them associated with nanodomains. Fyn mobility decreases in dendrites during neuronal maturation, suggesting a dynamic synaptic reorganization. Removing Tau increases Fyn mobility in dendritic shafts, an effect that is rescued by re-expressing wildtype Tau. By contrast, expression of frontotemporal dementia P301L mutant Tau immobilizes Fyn in dendritic spines, affecting its motion state distribution and nanoclustering. Tau therefore controls the nanoscale organization of Fyn in dendrites, with the pathological Tau P301L mutation potentially contributing to synaptic dysfunction by promoting aberrant Fyn nanoclustering in spines.

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Protein MultimerizationAnimalsDendritic SpinesFrontotemporal DementiaHippocampusMiceMutant ProteinsProto-Oncogene Proteins c-fyntau ProteinsFyn protein, mouseMapt protein, mouseMutant ProteinsProto-Oncogene Proteins c-fyntau Proteinscell biologyFynmousenanoclustersneurosciencesignallingsuper-resolutionTau

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PMID31237563
PMCPMC6592683
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