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Promotion of hyperphosphorylation by frontotemporal dementia tau mutations.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 13 Aug 2004
Alonso Alejandra del C, Mederlyova Anna, Novak Michal, Grundke-Iqbal Inge, Iqbal Khalid
Abstract excerpt
Mutations in the tau gene are known to cosegregate with the disease in frontotemporal dementia with parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17 (FTDP-17). However, the molecular mechanism by which these mutations might lead to the disease is not understood. Here, we show that four of the FTDP-17 tau mutations, R406W, V337M, G272V, and P301L, result in tau proteins that are more favorable substrates for phosphorylation...
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