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Inhibition of tau aggregation in a novel Caenorhabditis elegans model of tauopathy mitigates proteotoxicity.
Human molecular genetics - 15 Aug 2012
Fatouros Chronis, Pir Ghulam Jeelani, Biernat Jacek, Koushika Sandhya Padmanabhan, Mandelkow Eckhard, Mandelkow Eva-Maria, Schmidt Enrico, Baumeister Ralf
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Increased Tau protein amyloidogenicity has been causatively implicated in several neurodegenerative diseases, collectively called tauopathies. In pathological conditions, Tau becomes hyperphosphorylated and forms intracellular aggregates. The deletion of K280, which is a mutation that commonly appears in patients with frontotemporal dementia with Parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17, enhances Tau aggregation...
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