ArticleNature neuroscience2025
Tau filaments are tethered within brain extracellular vesicles in Alzheimer's disease.
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- Meta-analysis of extracellular vesicles-associated protein abundance and aggregation during aging and disease in C. elegans.Biogerontology · 2025Pooled it
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- Microglia-derived extracellular vesicle content as a biomarker for early detection of Alzheimer's disease.Translational neurodegeneration · 2026Review
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- HSPA8 orchestrates SNARE complex assembly to drive extracellular vesicle-mediated spread of p-tau217 in Alzheimer's disease.Translational neurodegeneration · 2026Article
- Advances in Alzheimer's disease: mechanistic insights and therapeutic targets.Science China. Life sciences · 2026Review
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- Karyoptosis mediates cell death and neurodegeneration upon proteotoxic stress.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Tau profiling of brain extracellular vesicles reveals PHF6 peptide as core for pathological tau seeding in Alzheimer's disease.Journal of biomedical science · 2026Article
- The Dual Role of Glial Extracellular Vesicles in Neurodegeneration: Insights from iPSC-Based Models.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
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- Molecular and Structural Characterization Reveals Divergent Extracellular Vesicle Profiles Between Wild Type and Alzheimer's Disease Cerebrocortical Organoids.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Ganglioside sialylation modulates tau internalization and pathology spread.Molecular psychiatry · 2026Article
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- Stress-induced alteration of small extracellular vesicles drives amyloid-beta sequestration and exacerbates Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis.Alzheimer's research & therapy · 2026Article
- Tracking tau and cellular responses in human iPSC-microglia: from uptake to seedable secretion, including in extracellular vesicles.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2026Article
- Extracellular Protein Quality Control in Tau Pathology.Molecular neurobiology · 2026Review
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Abstract
The abnormal assembly of tau protein in neurons is a pathological hallmark of multiple neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease (AD). Assembled tau associates with extracellular vesicles (EVs) in the central nervous system of individuals with AD, which is linked to its clearance and prion-like propagation. However, the identities of the assembled tau species and EVs, as well as how they associate, are not known. Here, we combined quantitative mass spectrometry, cryo-electron tomography and single-particle cryo-electron microscopy to study brain EVs from individuals with AD. We found tau filaments composed mainly of truncated tau that were enclosed within EVs enriched in endo-lysosomal proteins. We observed multiple filament interactions, including with molecules that tethered filaments to the EV limiting membrane, suggesting selective packaging. Our findings will guide studies into the molecular mechanisms of EV-mediated secretion of assembled tau and inform the targeting of EV-associated tau as potential therapeutic and biomarker strategies for AD.
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