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ReviewCells2022

Populations of Tau Conformers Drive Prion-like Strain Effects in Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias.

Lenka Hromadkova, Mohammad Khursheed Siddiqi, He Liu, Jiri G Safar

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In one paragraph

Review in Cells, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 22% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
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  3. A brain-derived tau oligomer polymorph is associated with cognitive resilience to Alzheimer's disease.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025
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  5. In situ seeding assay: A novel technique for direct tissue localization of bioactive tau.Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology · 2024
    Article
  6. Genome-wide association studies identify novel loci in rapidly progressive Alzheimer's disease.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2024
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  7. Article
  8. Aggregation of Disordered Proteins Associated with Neurodegeneration.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
    Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Lenka HromadkovaDepartment of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4034-7212
Mohammad Khursheed SiddiqiDepartment of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6522-1643
He LiuDepartment of Nutrition, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA.
Jiri G SafarDepartment of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA.
University School · US

Funding

Structural determinants of amyloid strain heterogeneity in distinct phenotypes of Alzheimer's diseaseRF1AG061797 · NIA · CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY · PI JARONIEC, CHRISTOPHER P, SAFAR, JIRI G. · 2018 to 2021
$4.4M
Characterization of Rapidly Progressive Alzheimer's DiseaseRF1AG058267 · NIA · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI HAINES, JONATHAN L, SAFAR, JIRI G. · 2017 to 2017
$4.0M
Replication mechanism of human prionsR01NS103848 · NINDS · CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY · PI SAFAR, JIRI G., SUREWICZ, WITOLD K · 2018 to 2022
$2.6M
Replication mechanism of human prionsR01NS074317 · NINDS · CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY · PI SAFAR, JIRI G., SUREWICZ, WITOLD K · 2011 to 2015
$2.6M
CDC HHS NU38 CK000480NIA NIH HHS RF1 AG058267NIA NIH HHS RF1 AG061797NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS074317NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS103848
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent findings of diverse populations of prion-like conformers of misfolded tau protein expand the prion concept to Alzheimer's disease (AD) and monogenic frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD)-MAPT P301L, and suggest that distinct strains of misfolded proteins drive the phenotypes and progression rates in many neurodegenerative diseases. Notable progress in the previous decades has generated many lines of proof arguing that yeast, fungal, and mammalian prions determine heritable as well as infectious traits. The extraordinary phenotypic diversity of human prion diseases arises from structurally distinct prion strains that target, at different progression speeds, variable brain structures and cells. Although human prion research presents beneficial lessons and methods to study the mechanism of strain diversity of protein-only pathogens, the fundamental molecular mechanism by which tau conformers are formed and replicate in diverse tauopathies is still poorly understood. In this review, we summarize up to date advances in identification of diverse tau conformers through biophysical and cellular experimental paradigms, and the impact of heterogeneity of pathological tau strains on personalized structure- and strain-specific therapeutic approaches in major tauopathies.

Indexed as

Alzheimer DiseasePrion DiseasesPrionsTauopathiesAnimalsHumansMammalstau ProteinsPrionstau ProteinsAlzheimer’s disease (AD)frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD)misfolded tau protein conformersprion-like tau strains

Identifiers

PMID36230957
PMCPMC9562632
OpenAlexW4297348239

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