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  • Tau is a protein that interacts with special helpers called hnRNPs, which help manage RNA in our cells.
  • Researchers studied how these hnRNP proteins behave in different brain diseases like Alzheimer's, but found they didn't stick together with the bad tau proteins as expected.
  • They discovered that the hnRNP proteins did get mixed up and moved to the wrong places in the cells during these diseases, which might affect how RNA works in the brain.

Article Abstract

Tau interacts with multiple heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoproteins (hnRNPs)-a family of RNA binding proteins that regulate multiple known cellular functions, including mRNA splicing, mRNA transport, and translation regulation. We have previously demonstrated particularly significant interactions between phosphorylated tau and three hnRNPs (hnRNP A1, hnRNP A2B1, and hnRNP K). Although multiple hnRNPs have been previously implicated in tauopathies, knowledge of whether these hnRNPs colocalize with tau aggregates or show cellular mislocalization in disease is limited. Here, we performed a neuropathological study examining the colocalization between hnRNP A1, hnRNP A2B1, hnRNP K, and phosphorylated tau in two brain regions (hippocampus and frontal cortex) in six disease groups (Alzheimer's disease, mild cognitive impairment, progressive supranuclear palsy, corticobasal degeneration, Pick's disease, and controls). Contrary to expectations, hnRNP A1, hnRNP A2B1, and hnRNP K did not colocalize with AT8-immunoreactive phosphorylated tau pathology in any of the tauopathies examined. However, we did observe significant cellular mislocalization of hnRNP A1, hnRNP A2B1 and hnRNP K in tauopathies, with unique patterns of mislocalization observed for each hnRNP. These data point to broad dysregulation of hnRNP A1, A2B1 and K across tauopathies with implications for disease processes and RNA regulation.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bpa.13305DOI Listing

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