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ArticleCellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS2024

Truncated tau interferes with the autophagy and endolysosomal pathway and results in lipid accumulation.

Saskia J Pollack, Dina Dakkak, Tong Guo, George Chennell, Patricia Gomez-Suaga, Wendy Noble, Maria Jimenez-Sanchez, Diane P Hanger

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Article in Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Proteomic analysis links truncated tau to lysosome motility, autophagy, and endo-lysosomal dysfunction.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025
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  3. The connection between autophagy and Alzheimer's disease.Inflammation research : official journal of the European Histamine Research Society ... [et al.] · 2025
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Saskia J PollackDepartment of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, 5 Cutcombe Road, London, SE5 9RX, UK.
Dina DakkakDepartment of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, 5 Cutcombe Road, London, SE5 9RX, UK.
Tong GuoDepartment of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, 5 Cutcombe Road, London, SE5 9RX, UK.
George ChennellDepartment of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, 5 Cutcombe Road, London, SE5 9RX, UK.
Patricia Gomez-SuagaDepartment of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, 5 Cutcombe Road, London, SE5 9RX, UK.
Wendy NobleDepartment of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, 5 Cutcombe Road, London, SE5 9RX, UK. w.noble2@exeter.ac.uk.
Maria Jimenez-SanchezDepartment of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, 5 Cutcombe Road, London, SE5 9RX, UK. maria.jimenez_sanchez@kcl.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2287-1582
Diane P HangerDepartment of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, 5 Cutcombe Road, London, SE5 9RX, UK.

Funding

Alzheimer Society AS-PG-18b-012Alzheimer's Society AS-PG-18b-012Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas CB06/05/0041Instituto de Salud Carlos III IHMC22/00025Medical Research Council MR/V036947/1Motor Neurone Disease Association Gomez-Suaga/Oct17/967/799
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The autophagy-lysosomal pathway plays a critical role in the clearance of tau protein aggregates that deposit in the brain in tauopathies, and defects in this system are associated with disease pathogenesis. Here, we report that expression of Tau35, a tauopathy-associated carboxy-terminal fragment of tau, leads to lipid accumulation in cell lines and primary cortical neurons. Our findings suggest that this is likely due to a deleterious block of autophagic clearance and lysosomal degradative capacity by Tau35. Notably, upon induction of autophagy by Torin 1, Tau35 inhibited nuclear translocation of transcription factor EB (TFEB), a key regulator of lysosomal biogenesis. Both cell lines and primary cortical neurons expressing Tau35 also exhibited changes in endosomal protein expression. These findings implicate autophagic and endolysosomal dysfunction as key pathological mechanisms through which disease-associated tau fragments could lead to the development and progression of tauopathy.

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AutophagyEndosomesLipid MetabolismLysosomesNeuronstau ProteinsAnimalsBasic Helix-Loop-Helix Leucine Zipper Transcription FactorsHumansMiceTauopathiesBasic Helix-Loop-Helix Leucine Zipper Transcription Factorstau ProteinsTFEB protein, humanAlzheimer’s diseaseAutophagyDementiaEndosomesLysosomesTauTFEB

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PMID39009859
PMCPMC11335226

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