Familial FTDP-17 Missense Mutations Inhibit Microtubule Assembly-promoting Activity of Tau by Increasing Phosphorylation at Ser202 in Vitro*S⃞
AUTOR(ES)
Han, Dong
FONTE
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
RESUMO
In Alzheimer disease (AD), frontotemporal dementia and parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17 (FTDP-17) and other tauopathies, tau accumulates and forms paired helical filaments (PHFs) in the brain. Tau isolated from PHFs is phosphorylated at a number of sites, migrates as ∼60-, 64-, and 68-kDa bands on SDS-gel, and does not promote microtubule assembly. Upon dephosphorylation, the PHF-tau migrates as ∼50–60-kDa bands on SDS-gels in a manner similar to tau that is isolated from normal brain and promotes microtubule assembly. The site(s) that inhibits microtubule assembly-promoting activity when phosphorylated in the diseased brain is not known. In this study, when tau was phosphorylated by Cdk5 in vitro, its mobility shifted from ∼60-kDa bands to ∼64- and 68-kDa bands in a time-dependent manner. This mobility shift correlated with phosphorylation at Ser202, and Ser202 phosphorylation inhibited tau microtubule-assembly promoting activity. When several tau point mutants were analyzed, G272V, P301L, V337M, and R406W mutations associated with FTDP-17, but not nonspecific mutations S214A and S262A, promoted Ser202 phosphorylation and mobility shift to a ∼68-kDa band. Furthermore, Ser202 phosphorylation inhibited the microtubule assembly-promoting activity of FTDP-17 mutants more than of WT. Our data indicate that FTDP-17 missense mutations, by promoting phosphorylation at Ser202, inhibit the microtubule assembly-promoting activity of tau in vitro, suggesting that Ser202 phosphorylation plays a major role in the development of NFT pathology in AD and related tauopathies.
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