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Shorter but not more catalytic: an active-site-resolved model of how tau reshapes amyloid- secondary nucleation
Andrey V. Kuznetsov
Tau cross-seeding creates a mechanistic puzzle. Tau fibrils accelerate amyloid-42 (A42) nucleation and produce a larger population of shorter A fibrils, yet homotypic seco…
q-bio.SC2026
A kinetic model predicts that tau-catalyzed A nucleation can raise oligomer burden without increasing plaque volume
Andrey V. Kuznetsov
Tau and amyloid- (A) deposits co-occur in Alzheimer's disease, and tau fibrils have recently been shown in vitro to catalyze A primary nucleation in a fold-specific manner…