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ArticleFrontiers in neurology2020

Tau Oligomers and Fibrils Exhibit Differential Patterns of Seeding and Association With RNA Binding Proteins.

Lulu Jiang, Jian Zhao, Ji-Xin Cheng, Benjamin Wolozin

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Article in Frontiers in neurology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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20citing papers in PubMed
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 18% 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

20 citing papers in PubMed, 34 citations in OpenAlex.

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  18. The prion-like transmission of tau oligomersFrontiers in aging neuroscience · 2022
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  20. TIA1 potentiates tau phase separation and promotes generation of toxic oligomeric tau.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Lulu JiangDepartment of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States.
Jian ZhaoBoston University Photonics Center, Boston, MA, United States.
Ji-Xin ChengBoston University Photonics Center, Boston, MA, United States.
Benjamin WolozinDepartment of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States.
Boston University · US

Funding

Vibrational Spectroscopic Imaging to Unveil Hidden Signatures in Living SystemsR35GM136223 · NIGMS · BOSTON UNIVERSITY (CHARLES RIVER CAMPUS) · PI CHENG, JI-XIN · 2020 to 2025
$5.7M
Capturing the molecular complexity of Alzheimer's disease through the lens of RNA binding proteinsRF1AG056318 · NIA · BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CAMPUS · PI LI, HU, WOLOZIN, BENJAMIN L · 2018 to 2020
$4.4M
Immunotherapy targeting the HPA axis in Alzheimer’s diseaseRF1AG064942 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA · PI BIZON, JENNIFER LYNN, GOLDE, TODD E · 2019 to 2019
$4.0M
Systems-level functional proteomics analysis assemblies in Alzheimer's disease and mouse models of tauopathyRF1AG061706 · NIA · BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CAMPUS · PI EMILI, ANDREW, WOLOZIN, BENJAMIN L · 2019 to 2019
$3.9M
Genetic Modifiers of Protein Interaction Networks in TauopathyR01AG064932 · NIA · BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CAMPUS · PI EMILI, ANDREW, WOLOZIN, BENJAMIN L · 2019 to 2023
$3.2M
RNA binding proteins as novel targets in Alzheimer's diseaseR01AG050471 · NIA · BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CAMPUS · PI WOLOZIN, BENJAMIN L · 2015 to 2019
$2.9M
The role of acetylation in regulating pathophysiology of tauR01NS089544 · NINDS · MAYO CLINIC JACKSONVILLE · PI PETRUCELLI, LEONARD, WOLOZIN, BENJAMIN L · 2014 to 2018
$1.9M
QUANTSTUDIO 12K FLEX OPEN ARRAY REAL-TIME PCR SYSTEMS10OD023663 · OD · BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER · PI DENG, LINGYI L · 2017 to 2017
$186k
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tau aggregates are pleiotropic and exhibit differences in conformation, structure, and size. These aggregates develop endogenously but are also propagated among neurons in disease. We explored the actions of two distinct types of tau aggregates, tau oligomers (oTau) and tau fibrils (fTau), using a seeding assay in primary neuron cultures expressing human 4R0N tau. We find that oTau and fTau elicit distinct patterns of tau inclusions in the neurons and distinct molecular interactions. The exogenously applied oTau and fTau both clear rapidly from the neurons, but both also seed intracellular inclusions composed of endogenously produced tau. The two types of seeds elicit differential dose-response relationships for seed uptake and the number of resulting intracellular inclusions. Immunocytochemical studies show that co-localization with RNA binding proteins associated with stress granules is much greater for seeds composed of oTau than fTau. Conversely, co-localization with p62/SQSTM1 and thioflavine S is much greater for fTau than oTau. These results suggest that oTau seeds inclusions that modulate the translational stress response and are physiologically active, whereas fTau seeds inclusions that are fibrillar and shunted to the autolysosomal cascade.

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image proceedingneurofibrillary tangle (NFT)PABPRNA translationstressstress granulestau oligomerTIA1

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PMID33101187
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