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Pathogenic Tau Impairs Axon Initial Segment Plasticity and Excitability Homeostasis.

Neuron | 2019

Dysregulation of neuronal excitability underlies the pathogenesis of tauopathies, including frontotemporal dementia (FTD) with tau inclusions. A majority of FTD-causing tau mutations are located in the microtubule-binding domain, but how these mutations alter neuronal excitability is largely unknown. Here, using CRISPR/Cas9-based gene editing in human pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived neurons and isogenic controls, we show that the FTD-causing V337M tau mutation impairs activity-dependent plasticity of the cytoskeleton in the axon initial segment (AIS). Extracellular recordings by multi-electrode arrays (MEAs) revealed that the V337M tau mutation in human neurons leads to an abnormal increase in neuronal activity in response to chronic depolarization. Stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy of human neurons with this mutation showed that AIS plasticity is impaired by the abnormal accumulation of end-binding protein 3 (EB3) in the AIS submembrane region. These findings expand our understanding of how FTD-causing tau mutations dysregulate components of the neuronal cytoskeleton, leading to network dysfunction.

Pubmed ID: 31542321 RIS Download

Associated grants

  • Agency: NIA NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 AG057497
  • Agency: NINDS NIH HHS, United States
    Id: U54 NS100717
  • Agency: NINDS NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 NS059690
  • Agency: NIA NIH HHS, United States
    Id: K01 AG057862
  • Agency: NIA NIH HHS, United States
    Id: K01 AG046374
  • Agency: NIA NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 AG051390
  • Agency: NIA NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 AG054214
  • Agency: NIGMS NIH HHS, United States
    Id: T32 GM064337
  • Agency: NCRR NIH HHS, United States
    Id: C06 RR018928

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