MAPT isoforms: differential transcriptional profiles related to 3R and 4R splice variants.

ABSTRACT: Tau aggregation in neurofibrillary tangles is a pathological hallmark in tauopathies including Alzheimer's disease (AD). The predominant aggregation of certain MAPT (tau gene) isoforms, either the 4-repeat (4R tau) or the 3-repeat (3R tau) isoform has been widely described in tauopathies. Alterations of the 4R tau to 3R tau ratio may be a key for tau-related neurodegeneration. To study the biological consequences in expression between tau splicing isoforms 4R and 3R, we analyzed the main neurobiological effects of inclusion of the repeat region coded by exon 10 in MAPT. We compared the transcriptional profiles of the 4R tau isoforms to 3R tau isoforms using whole-genome gene expression profiling microarrays using human neuroblastoma SH-SY5Y cell lines overexpressing either human 4R tau or

SUBMITTER: Chen S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3322427 | biostudies-literature | 2010

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature