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ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2025

Pseudo-Phosphorylated Tau Forms Paired Helical Filaments in the Presence of High-Curvature Cholesterol-Containing Lipid Membranes.

Nadia El Mammeri, Pu Duan, Mei Hong

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Article in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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3 authors.

Nadia El MammeriDepartment of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 170 Albany Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States.
Pu DuanDepartment of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 170 Albany Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-7395-4353
Mei HongDepartment of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 170 Albany Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-5255-5858

Funding

Molecular structures of tau aggregates studied by solid-state NMRRF1AG059661 · NIA · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI HONG, MEI · 2018 to 2021
$2.1M
Tau structure and dynamics in Alzheimer's diseaseR01AG059661 · NIA · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI Mei Hong · 2023 to 2026
$1.8M
NIA NIH HHS R01 AG059661NIA NIH HHS RF1 AG059661
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The tau protein misfolds in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease (AD). These pathological tau aggregates are associated with neuronal membranes, but molecular structural information about how disease-like tau fibrils interact with the lipid membrane is scarce. Here, we use solid-state NMR to investigate the structure of a tau construct bearing four AD-relevant phospho-mimetic mutations (4E tau) with cholesterol-containing high-curvature lipid membranes, which mimic the membrane of synaptic vesicles in neurons. We show that 4E tau adopts the AD paired helical filament (PHF) fold in the presence of the membrane at high protein concentrations. Moreover, it inserts into the membrane-water interface with an orientation that suggests possible bridging of multiple lipid vesicles. At lower protein concentrations, moderate chemical shift changes are observed, indicating a perturbation of the PHF structure by the lipids. Removal of the phospho-mimetic mutations led to a qualitatively different β-sheet conformation. These results indicate that posttranslational modifications impact the tau fibril structure more strongly than lipid membranes, but the membrane modulates the conformational equilibria of the aggregates.

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CholesterolLipid BilayersMembrane Lipidstau ProteinsHumansPhosphorylationCholesterolLipid BilayersMembrane Lipidstau Proteins

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PMID39782001
PMCPMC12225538

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