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ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2020

Developmental Pathogenicity of 4-Repeat Human Tau Is Lost with the P301L Mutation in Genetically Matched Tau-Transgenic Mice.

Julia E Gamache, Lisa Kemper, Elizabeth Steuer, Kailee Leinonen-Wright, Jessica M Choquette, Chris Hlynialuk, Kellie Benzow, Keith A Vossel, Weiming Xia, Michael D Koob and 1 more

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Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 29% 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

15 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. A murine model of amyloid-enhanced tauopathy: Comparison of wild-type and P301L-tau.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Julia E GamacheN. Bud Grossman Center for Memory Research and Care, Department of Neurology.ORCID 0000-0002-3750-147X
Lisa KemperN. Bud Grossman Center for Memory Research and Care, Department of Neurology.
Elizabeth SteuerN. Bud Grossman Center for Memory Research and Care, Department of Neurology.
Kailee Leinonen-WrightN. Bud Grossman Center for Memory Research and Care, Department of Neurology.
Jessica M ChoquetteN. Bud Grossman Center for Memory Research and Care, Department of Neurology.
Chris HlynialukN. Bud Grossman Center for Memory Research and Care, Department of Neurology.
Kellie BenzowDepartment of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455.
Keith A VosselN. Bud Grossman Center for Memory Research and Care, Department of Neurology.
Weiming XiaDepartment of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, and Bedford Veterans Administration Medical Center, Bedford, Massachusetts 01730, and.
Michael D KoobDepartment of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455.
Karen H AsheN. Bud Grossman Center for Memory Research and Care, Department of Neurology, hsiao005@umn.edu.
Minnesota Medical Association · USUniversity of Minnesota · USBoston University · US

Funding

Women's CancerP30CA077598 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA TWIN CITIES · PI Douglas Yee · 1998 to 2026
$100.4M
Role of Tau Cleavage in TauopathyR01NS079374 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI ASHE, KAREN H · 2013 to 2016
$1.5M
Uncovering the role of genetic MAPT variation in the pathogenesis of tauopathies: An early molecular phenotypeF31AG057104 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI GAMACHE, JULIA ELISE · 2017 to 2019
$98k
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA077598NIA NIH HHS F31 AG057104NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS079374
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tau is a microtubule-associated protein that becomes dysregulated in a group of neurodegenerative diseases called tauopathies. Differential tau isoforms, expression levels, promoters, and disruption of endogenous genes in transgenic mouse models of tauopathy make it difficult to draw definitive conclusions about the biological role of tau in these models. We addressed this shortcoming by characterizing the molecular and cognitive phenotypes associated with the pathogenic P301L tau mutation (rT2 mice) in relation to a genetically matched transgenic mouse overexpressing nonmutant (NM) 4-repeat (4R) human tau (rT1 mice). Both male and female mice were included in this study. Unexpectedly, we found that 4R NM human tau (hTau) exhibited abnormal dynamics in young mice that were lost with the P301L mutation, including elevated protein stability and hyperphosphorylation, which were associated with cognitive impairment in 5-month-old rT1 mice. Hyperphosphorylation of NM hTau was observed as early as 4 weeks of age, and transgene suppression for the first 4 or 12 weeks of life prevented abnormal molecular and cognitive phenotypes in rT1, demonstrating that NM hTau pathogenicity is specific to postnatal development. We also show that NM hTau exhibits stronger binding to microtubules than P301L hTau, and is associated with mitochondrial abnormalities. Overall, our genetically matched mice have revealed that 4R NM hTau overexpression is pathogenic in a manner distinct from classical aging-related tauopathy, underlining the importance of assaying the effects of transgenic disease-related proteins at appropriate stages in life.

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AnimalsCells, CulturedFemaleGenes, SyntheticHippocampusHumansINDEL MutationMaleMaze LearningMemory DisordersMiceMice, TransgenicMicrotubulesMitochondriaMitochondrial DiseasesMutation, MissenseMAPT protein, humanRecombinant Proteinstau Proteinsmouse modeltautauopathytransgenesis

Identifiers

PMID31685653
PMCPMC6939485
OpenAlexW2983621322

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