UMMS Affiliation
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Publication Date
2018-08-01
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins | Molecular Biology | Nervous System Diseases | Neuroscience and Neurobiology | Nucleic Acids, Nucleotides, and Nucleosides
Abstract
The development of insoluble, intracellular neurofibrillary tangles composed of the microtubule-associated protein tau is a defining feature of tauopathies, including Alzheimer's disease (AD). Accumulating evidence suggests that tau pathology co-localizes with RNA binding proteins (RBPs) that are known markers for stress granules (SGs). Here we used proteomics to determine how the network of tau binding proteins changes with disease in the rTg4510 mouse, and then followed up with immunohistochemistry to identify RNA binding proteins that co-localize with tau pathology. The tau interactome networks revealed striking disease-related changes in interactions between tau and a multiple RBPs, and biochemical fractionation studies demonstrated that many of these proteins including hnRNPA0, EWSR1, PABP and RPL7 form insoluble aggregates as tau pathology develops. Immunohistochemical analysis of mouse and human brain tissues suggest a model of evolving pathological interaction, in which RBPs co-localize with pathological phospho-tau but occur adjacent to larger pathological tau inclusions. We suggest a model in which tau initially interacts with RBPs in small complexes, but evolves into isolated aggregated inclusions as tau pathology matures.
Keywords
Alzheimer’s disease, Immunohistochemistry, Mass spectrometry, Neurofibrillary tangle, Protein aggregation, Protein interactome
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DOI of Published Version
10.1186/s40478-018-0574-5
Source
Acta Neuropathol Commun. 2018 Aug 1;6(1):71. doi: 10.1186/s40478-018-0574-5. Link to article on publisher's site
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Acta neuropathologica communications
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PubMed ID
30068389
Repository Citation
Maziuk BF, Apicco DJ, Cruz AL, Jiang L, Ash PE, da Rocha EL, Zhang C, Yu WH, Leszyk JD, Abisambra JF, Li H, Wolozin B. (2018). RNA binding proteins co-localize with small tau inclusions in tauopathy. Open Access Articles. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40478-018-0574-5. Retrieved from https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/oapubs/3584
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