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Deletion of the ubiquitin ligase CHIP leads to the accumulation, but not the aggregation, of both endogenous phospho- and caspase-3-cleaved tau species.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience - 28 Jun 2006
Dickey Chad A, Yue Mei, Lin Wen-Lang, Dickson Dennis W, Dunmore Judith H, Lee Wing C, Zehr Cynthia, West Gemma, Cao Songsong, Clark Amber M K, Caldwell Guy A, Caldwell Kim A, Eckman Christopher, Patterson Cam, Hutton Michael, Petrucelli Leonard
Abstract excerpt
Accumulation of the microtubule-associated protein tau into neurofibrillary lesions is a pathological consequence of several neurodegenerative diseases, including Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease. Hereditary mutations in the MAPT gene were shown to promote the formation of structurally distinct tau aggregates in patients that had a parkinsonian-like clinical presentation. Whether tau aggregates...
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