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ArticleeLife2023

DnaJC7 specifically regulates tau seeding.

Valerie Ann Perez, David W Sanders, Ayde Mendoza-Oliva, Barbara Elena Stopschinski, Vishruth Mullapudi, Charles L White, Lukasz A Joachimiak, Marc I Diamond

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Article in eLife, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
3.2field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Mechanisms and regulation of the Hsp70 chaperone network.Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology · 2026
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  5. DnaJB1 chaperone inhibits tau aggregation by recognizing its N-terminus.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  11. DnaJs are enriched in tau regulators.International journal of biological macromolecules · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Valerie Ann PerezCenter for Alzheimer's and Neurodegenerative Diseases, Peter O'Donnell Jr. Brain Institute, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-8854-515X
David W SandersCenter for Alzheimer's and Neurodegenerative Diseases, Peter O'Donnell Jr. Brain Institute, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-1835-6895
Ayde Mendoza-OlivaCenter for Alzheimer's and Neurodegenerative Diseases, Peter O'Donnell Jr. Brain Institute, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-8917-0940
Barbara Elena StopschinskiCenter for Alzheimer's and Neurodegenerative Diseases, Peter O'Donnell Jr. Brain Institute, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-5715-4567
Vishruth MullapudiCenter for Alzheimer's and Neurodegenerative Diseases, Peter O'Donnell Jr. Brain Institute, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, United States.
Charles L WhiteDepartment of Pathology, Peter O'Donnell Jr. Brain Institute, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-3870-2804
Lukasz A JoachimiakCenter for Alzheimer's and Neurodegenerative Diseases, Peter O'Donnell Jr. Brain Institute, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-3061-5850
Marc I DiamondCenter for Alzheimer's and Neurodegenerative Diseases, Peter O'Donnell Jr. Brain Institute, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-8085-7770
Southwestern Medical Center · US

Funding

Identification and characterization of tau seeding and strain composition in tauopathyRF1AG059689 · NIA · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI DIAMOND, MARC I, WHITE, CHARLES LEE · 2019 to 2019
$3.4M
DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL THERAPEUTIC ANTI-TAU ANTIBODIESR01AG048678 · NIA · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI DIAMOND, MARC I, HOLTZMAN, DAVID M. · 2015 to 2019
$3.3M
Seeds and Strains Derived from Tau Monomer - Perez Diversity SupplementRF1AG065407 · NIA · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI DIAMOND, MARC I, JOACHIMIAK, LUKASZ A. · 2020 to 2021
$3.2M
J-domain protein conformational selectivity for tau in diseaseRF1AG078888 · NIA · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI JOACHIMIAK, LUKASZ A. · 2022 to 2022
$1.2M
NIA NIH HHS R01 AG048678NIA NIH HHS RF1 AG059689NIA NIH HHS RF1 AG065407NIA NIH HHS RF1 AG078888
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neurodegenerative tauopathies are caused by accumulation of toxic tau protein assemblies. This appears to involve template-based seeding events, whereby tau monomer changes conformation and is recruited to a growing aggregate. Several large families of chaperone proteins, including Hsp70s and J domain proteins (JDPs), cooperate to regulate the folding of intracellular proteins such as tau, but the factors that coordinate this activity are not well known. The JDP DnaJC7 binds tau and reduces its intracellular aggregation. However, it is unknown whether this is specific to DnaJC7 or if other JDPs might be similarly involved. We used proteomics within a cell model to determine that DnaJC7 co-purified with insoluble tau and colocalized with intracellular aggregates. We individually knocked out every possible JDP and tested the effect on intracellular aggregation and seeding. DnaJC7 knockout decreased aggregate clearance and increased intracellular tau seeding. This depended on the ability of the J domain (JD) of DnaJC7 to stimulate Hsp70 ATPase activity, as JD mutations that block this interaction abrogated the protective activity. Disease-associated mutations in the JD and substrate binding site of DnaJC7 also abolished its protective activity. DnaJC7 thus specifically regulates tau aggregation in cooperation with Hsp70.

Indexed as

Tauopathiestau ProteinsHSP70 Heat-Shock ProteinsHumansHSP70 Heat-Shock Proteinstau Proteinsamyloidbiochemistrychaperoneschemical biologyDnaJC7humanJ domain proteinneuroscienceseedingtau

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PMID37387473
PMCPMC10473839
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