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Article type: Research Article
Authors: Kim, WonHeea | Lee, Sangmooka | Jung, Cheolwhaa | Ahmed, Ambara | Lee, Gloriab | Hall, Garth F.a; *
Affiliations: [a] Center for Cellular Neuroscience and Neurodegeneration Research, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA, USA | [b] Department of Internal Medicine, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author: Garth F. Hall, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Massachusetts Lowell, One University Avenue, Lowell, MA 01854, USA. Tel.: +1 978 934 2893; Fax: +1 978 934 3044; E-mail: [email protected].
Note: [] Handling Associate Editor: Thomas Shea
Abstract: The mechanisms by which tau-containing lesions are propagated between adjacent and synaptically interconnected parts of the brain are a potentially important but poorly understood component of human tauopathies such as Alzheimer's disease, Pick's disease, and corticobasal degeneration. Since the utility of currently available transgenic models for studying intercellular aspects of tauopathy is limited by their broad patterns of tau expression in the central nervous system, we used an in situ tauopathy model that replicates tau-induced cytodegeneration in identified neurons on a tau-negative background to determine whether tau secretion or interneuronal transfer might play a role in lesion propagation. We found that the N-terminal half of tau is required for tau secretion and is efficiently exported to the extracellular space and adjacent neurons at relatively low levels of overexpression. By contrast, full-length tau is secreted by a separate mechanism that is correlated with phosphorylation of tau at tyrosine 18 and dendritic degeneration, is exacerbated by tauopathy mutations, and blocked by mutations that inhibit tau:tau interactions. Anterograde transneuronal tau movement occurred with the expression of tau containing the P301L tauopathy mutant, but not with wild type tau isoforms. Our results are consistent with recent studies suggesting a role for molecular “templating” in the propagation of neurofibrillary lesions and provide a novel conceptual and experimental basis for studying the mechanisms of interneuronal propagation and toxicity in human neurodegenerative disease.
Keywords: Pseudophosphorylation, secretion, tau, tauopathy, transneuronal tau movement, tyrosine phosphorylation
DOI: 10.3233/JAD-2010-1273
Journal: Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 647-664, 2010
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