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Wegmann, Susanne; Eftekharzadeh, Bahareh; Tepper, Katharina; Zoltowska, Katarzyna M; Bennett, Rachel E; Dujardin, Simon; Laskowski, Pawel R; MacKenzie, Danny; Kamath, Tarun; Commins, Caitlin; Vanderburg, Charles; Roe, Allyson D; Fan, Zhanyun; Molliex, Amandine M; Hernandez‐Vega, Amayra; Muller, Daniel; Hyman, Anthony A; Mandelkow, Eckhard; Taylor, J Paul; Hyman, Bradley T
The EMBO journal, 03 April 2018, Volume: 37, Issue: 7Journal Article
The transition between soluble intrinsically disordered tau protein and aggregated tau in neurofibrillary tangles in Alzheimer's disease is unknown. Here, we propose that soluble tau species can undergo liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) under cellular conditions and that phase‐separated tau droplets can serve as an intermediate toward tau aggregate formation. We demonstrate that phosphorylated or mutant aggregation prone recombinant tau undergoes LLPS, as does high molecular weight soluble phospho‐tau isolated from human Alzheimer brain. Droplet‐like tau can also be observed in neurons and other cells. We found that tau droplets become gel‐like in minutes, and over days start to spontaneously form thioflavin‐S‐positive tau aggregates that are competent of seeding cellular tau aggregation. Since analogous LLPS observations have been made for FUS, hnRNPA1, and TDP43, which aggregate in the context of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, we suggest that LLPS represents a biophysical process with a role in multiple different neurodegenerative diseases. Synopsis The microtubule binding protein tau can undergo liquid‐liquid phase separation under physiological conditions. Phosphorylated, FTD‐mutant, and Alzheimer's disease brain tau is capable of forming droplets that can initiate the formation of aberrant, aggregated tau “seeds”. LLPS may play a role in different tauopathies. Full‐length human tau can undergo liquid‐liquid phase separation in neurons. In vitro studies show importance of phosphorylation and Frontotemporal Dementia mutations for tau LLPS. AD brain tau is competent of forming droplets. Tau droplets can transition into aggregates. Tau LLPS is a potential mechanism for aggregation initiation in tauopathies. An Alzheimer's Disease‐associated tau phase transition from soluble to droplet may exemplify a biophysical mechanism underlying several neurodegenerative diseases.
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