Kinases and phosphatases and tau sites involved in Alzheimer neurofibrillary degeneration

被引:392
作者
Wang, Jian-Zhi
Grundke-Iqbal, Inge
Iqbal, Khalid
机构
[1] New York State Inst Basic Res Dev Disabil, Dept Neurochem, Staten Isl, NY 10314 USA
[2] Huazhong Univ Sci & Technol, Tongji Med Coll, Dept Pathophysiol, Wuhan 430074, Peoples R China
关键词
abnormal hyperphosphorylation of tau; Alzheimer's disease; paired helical filaments; protein phosphatase-2A; tauopathies;
D O I
10.1111/j.1460-9568.2006.05226.x
中图分类号
Q189 [神经科学];
学科分类号
071006 ;
摘要
Microtubule associated protein (MAP) tau is abnormally hyperphosphorylated in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related tauopathies; in this form it is the major protein subunit of paired helical filaments (PHF)/neurofibrillary tangles. However, the nature of protein kinases and phosphatases and tau sites involved in this lesion has been elusive. We investigated self-assembly and microtubule assembly promoting activities of hyperphosphorylated tau isolated from Alzheimer disease brain cytosol, the AD abnormally hyperphosphorylated tau (AD P-tau) before and after dephosphorylation by phosphoseryl/phosphothreonyl protein phosphatase-2A (PP-2A), and then rephosphorylation by cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA), calcium, calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII), glycogen synthase kinase-3 beta (GSK-3 beta) and cyclin-dependent protein kinase 5 (cdk5) in different kinase combinations. We found that (i) dephosphorylation of AD P-tau by PP-2A inhibits its polymerization into PHF/straight filaments (SF) and restores its binding and ability to promote assembly of tubulin into microtubules; (ii) rephosphorylation of PP-2A-dephosphorylated AD P-tau by sequential phosphorylation by PKA, CaMKII and GSK-3 beta or cdk5, and as well as by cdk5 and GSK-3 beta, promotes its self-assembly into tangles of PHF similar to those seen in Alzheimer brain, and (iii) phosphorylation of tau sites required for this pathology are Thr231 and Ser262, along with several sites flanking the microtubule binding repeat region. Phosphorylation of recombinant human brain tau(441) yielded similar results as the PP-2A dephosphorylated AD P-tau, except that mostly SF were formed. The conditions for the abnormal hyperphosphorylation of tau that promoted its self-assembly also induced the microtubule assembly inhibitory activity. These findings suggest that activation of PP-2A or inhibition of either both GSK-3 beta and cdk5 or one of these two kinases plus PKA or CaMKII might be required to inhibit Alzheimer neurofibrillary degeneration.
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