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ArticleJournal of proteome research2025

The Proteoform Landscape of Tau from the Human Brain.

Tian Xu, Taojunfeng Su, Benjamin J Des Soye, Soumya Kandi, Che-Fan Huang, John T Wilkins, Rudolph J Castellani, Jared O Kafader, Steven M Patrie, Robert Vassar and 1 more

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Article in Journal of proteome research, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Deep Proteoform Sequencing with Top-Down Direct Mass Technology.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  3. Extending Serum IgG1 Antibody Repertoire Coverage Using DIA-PTCR.Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Tian XuProteomics Center of Excellence, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-1464-6008
Taojunfeng SuProteomics Center of Excellence, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-7111-1248
Benjamin J Des SoyeProteomics Center of Excellence, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-5480-4192
Soumya KandiProteomics Center of Excellence, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-8007-3802
Che-Fan HuangProteomics Center of Excellence, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-5799-1533
John T WilkinsDepartments of Medicine (Cardiology) and Preventive Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois 60611, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-8781-1329
Rudolph J CastellaniMesulam Center for Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois 60611, United States.
Jared O KafaderProteomics Center of Excellence, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-5359-264X
Steven M PatrieProteomics Center of Excellence, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-0308-5498
Robert VassarMesulam Center for Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois 60611, United States.
Neil L KelleherProteomics Center of Excellence, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-8815-3372

Funding

Tumor Environment and Metastasis (TEAM) Research ProgramP30CA060553 · NCI · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI Devalingam Mahalingam · 1993 to 2026
$153.9M
Research Education Core FP30AG072977 · NIA · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI ROBERT J VASSAR · 2021 to 2026
$26.3M
The UIUC Neuroproteomics Center on Cell-Cell SignalingP30DA018310 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS URBANA-CHAMPAIGN · PI Jonathan V. Sweedler · 2004 to 2026
$24.9M
TR&D 7: Cell Specific ProteomicsP41GM108569 · NIGMS · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY · PI KELLEHER, NEIL L · 2015 to 2024
$13.6M
National Center for Translational and Developmental ProteomicsRM1GM156535 · NIGMS · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY · PI NEIL L KELLEHER · 2025 to 2026
$3.4M
Acquisition of a Thermo Fisher Scientific Q Exactive UHMR mass spectrometerS10OD025194 · OD · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY · PI COMPTON, PHILIP DANIEL · 2018 to 2018
$795k
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA060553NIA NIH HHS P30 AG072977NIDA NIH HHS P30 DA018310NIGMS NIH HHS P41 GM108569NIGMS NIH HHS RM1 GM156535NIH HHS S10 OD025194
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tau is a microtubule-associated protein (MAP) and is critical for maintaining the cytoskeleton of neurons. Tau and its post-translational modifications (PTMs) have been studied for decades, yet the exact composition of intact tau and its truncation products present in the human brain has evaded study at the proteoform level. Here, we show that tau proteoform profiling and exact characterization are possible using immunoprecipitation (IP) and the new approach of individual ion mass spectrometry (I

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Alzheimer DiseaseBraintau ProteinsAcetylationHumansImmunoprecipitationMethylationPhosphorylationProtein IsoformsProtein Processing, Post-TranslationalTandem Mass SpectrometryTemporal LobeProtein Isoformstau ProteinsAlzheimer’s diseaseimmunoprecipitationindividual ion mass spectrometryTau proteoformstop-down mass spectrometry

Identifiers

PMID40395051
PMCPMC12337710

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