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Tau Aggregation is Altered by Variations in its Projection Domain

Kayleigh Mason-Chalmers,Aanzan Sachdeva,2 Authors,Zachary J. Donhauser

2025 · DOI: 10.1101/2024.11.22.624898
bioRxiv · 1 Citations

TLDR

Observations suggest that the R5L mutation affects the kinetic nucleation-elongation pathway of tau fibrillization, where the mutant impacts polymer nucleation in 2N and 1N isoforms, but has a more significant impact on elongation in the 0N isoform.