Physiological and pathological phosphorylation of tau by Cdk5

Hyperphosphorylation of microtubule-associated protein tau is one of the major pathological events in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and other related neurodegenerative diseases, including Frontotemporal Dementia with Parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17 (FTDP-17). Mutations in the tau gene MAPT are a cau...

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Main Authors: Taeko eKimura, Koichi eIshiguro, Shin-Ichi eHisanaga
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience
Subjects:
tau
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnmol.2014.00065/full