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ArticleACS chemical neuroscience2026

In Vitro and In Vivo Evaluation of Small-Molecule Disassemblers of Pathological Tau Fibrils.

Hope Pan, Xinyi Cheng, Jeffrey Zhang, Ke Hou, Kevin A Murray, Kapil Manglani, Cansheng Zhu, Hung-Kai Hsu, Marisa Mekkittikul, Tyler Halladay and 14 more

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Article in ACS chemical neuroscience, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

24 authors.

Hope PanDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-6509-6224
Xinyi ChengDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095, United States.
Jeffrey ZhangDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095, United States.
Ke HouDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095, United States.
Kevin A MurrayDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095, United States.
Kapil ManglaniGeriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, Greater Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, West Los Angeles VA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California 90073, United States.
Cansheng ZhuGeriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, Greater Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, West Los Angeles VA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California 90073, United States.
Hung-Kai HsuDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-9347-2290
Marisa MekkittikulGeriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, Greater Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, West Los Angeles VA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California 90073, United States.
Tyler HalladayDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095, United States.
Hilda MirbahaDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095, United States.
Gazmend EleziPasarow Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095, United States.
Romany AbskharonDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095, United States.
Michael R SawayaDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-0874-9043
Alexander BombinoGeriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, Greater Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, West Los Angeles VA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California 90073, United States.
Christopher K WilliamsDepartment of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095, United States.
Michael DeTureDepartment of Neuroscience, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida 32224, United States.
Dennis W DicksonDepartment of Neuroscience, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida 32224, United States.
Harry V VintersDepartment of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095, United States.
Julian P WhiteleggeDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-2763-7733
Patrick G HarranDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-8748-5167
Gregory M ColeGeriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, Greater Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, West Los Angeles VA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California 90073, United States.
Sally A FrautschyGeriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, Greater Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, West Los Angeles VA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California 90073, United States.
David S EisenbergDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095, United States.

Funding

UCLA Clinical Translational Science InstituteUL1TR001881 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI ARLEEN F. BROWN, ARASH NAEIM · 2016 to 2026
$118.1M
UCLA-Caltech Medical Scientist Training ProgramT32GM008042 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI AJIJOLA, OLUJIMI A, DAWSON, DAVID WAYNE · 1985 to 2023
$29.9M
CHEMISTRY BIOLOGY INTERFACE TRAINING PROGRAMT32GM008496 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI MAYNARD, HEATHER D · 1993 to 2019
$6.3M
Towards Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease by Targeting Pathogenic Tau and Beta-Amyloid StructuresR01AG070895 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI DAVID EISENBERG · 2022 to 2026
$5.8M
Metabolic and Vascular Factors in tau pathogenesisR01AG066212 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI FRAUTSCHY, SALLY ANN · 2020 to 2024
$3.4M
Development of inhibitors for systemic amyloid diseasesR01AG048120 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI EISENBERG, DAVID · 2014 to 2018
$1.9M
Human tau neurodegeneration in Alzheimer'sR01AG021975 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI FRAUTSCHY, SALLY ANN · 2004 to 2008
$1.2M
Modulation of tau pathogenesis by high dietary fat, gender and ApoE isoformR21AG050269 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI FRAUTSCHY, SALLY ANN · 2016 to 2017
$347k
Designing novel therapeutics for Alzheimer’s disease using structural studies of tauF30AG077832 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI PAN, HOPE · 2023 to 2025
$141k
BLRD VA I01 BX005919NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR001881NIA NIH HHS F30 AG077832NIA NIH HHS R01 AG021975NIA NIH HHS R01 AG048120NIA NIH HHS R01 AG066212NIA NIH HHS R01 AG070895NIA NIH HHS R21 AG050269NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM008042NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM008496
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Aggregation of the microtubule-binding protein tau is the histopathological hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other neurodegenerative diseases, which are collectively known as tauopathies. Tau aggregation in AD patients is correlated with neuron loss, brain atrophy, and cognitive decline, and pro-aggregation tau mutations are sufficient to cause neurodegeneration and dementia in humans and tauopathy model mice. Thus, reversing tau aggregation is a potential therapeutic avenue for AD. In a previous study, we discovered CNS-11, a small molecule that disaggregates AD patient brain-extracted tau fibrils in vitro. In this study, we identify two chemical analogs of CNS-11, named CNS-11D and CNS-11G, that disaggregate AD patient brain-extracted tau fibrils and prevent seeding in a tau aggregation cell culture model. We also demonstrate that 8 weeks of treatment with either CNS-11D or CNS-11G reduces levels of insoluble tau in a mouse model of tauopathy. Our work defines the properties of two small molecules that diminish aggregation of tau in vivo and provides further support for structure-based methods to target tau for treatment of AD.

Indexed as

Alzheimer DiseaseProtein Aggregation, PathologicalTauopathiestau ProteinsAnimalsBrainDisease Models, AnimalHumansMiceMice, Transgenictau ProteinsAlzheimer’s diseasedisaggregationmouse modelneurodegenerative diseasesmall moleculestau

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PMID41486697
PMCPMC13689713

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