Pathological conformations involving the amino terminus of tau occur early in Alzheimer's disease and are differentially detected by monoclonal antibodies

Conformational changes involving the amino terminus of the tau protein are among the earliest alterations associated with tau pathology in Alzheimer's disease and other tauopathies. This region of tau contains a phosphatase-activating domain (PAD) that is aberrantly exposed in pathological form...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Benjamin Combs, Chelsey Hamel, Nicholas M. Kanaan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016-10-01
Series:Neurobiology of Disease
Subjects:
Tau
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096999611630119X