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  • Title: Filamin-A and Myosin VI colocalize with fibrillary Tau protein in Alzheimer's disease and FTDP-17 brains.
    Author: Feuillette S, Deramecourt V, Laquerriere A, Duyckaerts C, Delisle MB, Maurage CA, Blum D, Buée L, Frébourg T, Campion D, Lecourtois M.
    Journal: Brain Res; 2010 Jul 23; 1345():182-9. PubMed ID: 20460118.
    Abstract:
    Tauopathies, including Alzheimer's disease (AD), fronto-temporal dementia with parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17 (FTDP-17), Pick's disease and progressive supranuclear palsy, are neurodegenerative disorders neuropathologically characterized by the presence of intraneuronal fibrillary inclusions composed of abnormally phosphorylated-Tau. Tau protein is a neuronal microtubule-associated protein (MAP) involved in microtubules polymerization and stabilization. So far, the molecular mechanisms underlying Tau-mediated cellular toxicity remain elusive. To address the determinants of Tau neurotoxicity, we previously performed a misexpression screening in a Drosophila tauopathy model to identify genetic modifiers of the human Tau-induced neurodegeneration. We identified several components of the actin network as modifiers of Tau V337M-induced neurodegeneration, i.e. Filamin-A, Myosin VI, Paxillin and Transgelin-3. The aim of this study was to assess whether these genetic interactions were associated with a colocalization of the proteins (i) in the brains of patients with Tau pathologies, and (ii) in the brain of transgenic mice overexpressing human mutant Tau. We found that Filamin-A and Myosin VI indeed colocalize with fibrillary Tau protein in AD and FTDP-17 and in Thy-Tau22 transgenic mice.
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