Article
FTDP-17 tau mutations decrease the susceptibility of tau to calpain I digestion.
FEBS letters - 12 Nov 1999
Yen S, Easson C, Nacharaju P, Hutton M, Yen S H
Abstract excerpt
Frontal temporal dementia and Parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17 (FTDP-17) is caused by splice site and missense mutations in the tau gene, and characterized by the accumulation of filamentous tau in cerebral neurons and glia. The missense mutations reduce the ability of tau to promote microtub...
Topics
- Calpain
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 17
- Dementia
- Frontal Lobe
- Humans
- Immunoblotting
- Kinetics
- Mutation
- Parkinsonian Disorders
- Recombinant Proteins
- Silver Staining
- Time Factors
- tau Proteins
