Nature Communications (May 2022)

Fluent molecular mixing of Tau isoforms in Alzheimer’s disease neurofibrillary tangles

  • Aurelio J. Dregni,
  • Pu Duan,
  • Hong Xu,
  • Lakshmi Changolkar,
  • Nadia El Mammeri,
  • Virginia M.-Y. Lee,
  • Mei Hong

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30585-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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The tau protein in Alzheimer’s disease contains two isoforms. Using solid-state NMR and seeded growth of isotopically labeled tau, here the authors determined that the two isoforms mix fluently on the molecular level to propagate the AD tau structure.