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Tau Antibody Targeting Pathological Species Blocks Neuronal Uptake and Interneuron Propagation of Tau in Vitro.

  • Nobuhara CK Alzheimer's Disease Research Laboratory, Department of Neurology, MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts.
  • DeVos SL Alzheimer's Disease Research Laboratory, Department of Neurology, MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts.
  • Commins C Alzheimer's Disease Research Laboratory, Department of Neurology, MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts.
  • Wegmann S Alzheimer's Disease Research Laboratory, Department of Neurology, MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts.
  • Moore BD Alzheimer's Disease Research Laboratory, Department of Neurology, MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts.
  • Roe AD Alzheimer's Disease Research Laboratory, Department of Neurology, MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts.
  • Costantino I Alzheimer's Disease Research Laboratory, Department of Neurology, MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts.
  • Frosch MP Alzheimer's Disease Research Laboratory, Department of Neurology, MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts.
  • Pitstick R McLaughlin Research Institute, Great Falls, Montana.
  • Carlson GA McLaughlin Research Institute, Great Falls, Montana.
  • Hock C Neurimmune, Schlieren, Switzerland; Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
  • Nitsch RM Neurimmune, Schlieren, Switzerland; Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
  • Montrasio F Neurimmune, Schlieren, Switzerland.
  • Grimm J Neurimmune, Schlieren, Switzerland.
  • Cheung AE Biogen Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  • Dunah AW Biogen Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  • Wittmann M Biogen Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  • Bussiere T Biogen Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  • Weinreb PH Biogen Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  • Hyman BT Alzheimer's Disease Research Laboratory, Department of Neurology, MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts. Electronic address: bhyman@mgh.harvard.edu.
  • Takeda S Alzheimer's Disease Research Laboratory, Department of Neurology, MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts. Electronic address: takeda@cgt.med.osaka-u.ac.jp.
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  • 2017-04-15
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  • The American journal of pathology. - 2017
Aged, 80 and over
Alzheimer Disease
Animals
Antibodies, Monoclonal
Brain
Cells, Cultured
Epitopes
Female
Humans
Interneurons
Male
Mice, Transgenic
Microfluidic Analytical Techniques
Molecular Targeted Therapy
Neurofibrillary Tangles
Neurons
Phosphorylation
tau Proteins
English The clinical progression of Alzheimer disease (AD) is associated with the accumulation of tau neurofibrillary tangles, which may spread throughout the cortex by interneuronal tau transfer. If so, targeting extracellular tau species may slow the spreading of tau pathology and possibly cognitive decline. To identify suitable target epitopes, we tested the effects of a panel of tau antibodies on neuronal uptake and aggregation in vitro. Immunodepletion was performed on brain extract from tau-transgenic mice and postmortem AD brain and added to a sensitive fluorescence resonance energy transfer-based tau uptake assay to assess blocking efficacy. The antibodies reduced tau uptake in an epitope-dependent manner: N-terminal (Tau13) and middomain (6C5 and HT7) antibodies successfully prevented uptake of tau species, whereas the distal C-terminal-specific antibody (Tau46) had little effect. Phosphorylation-dependent (40E8 and p396) and C-terminal half (4E4) tau antibodies also reduced tau uptake despite removing less total tau by immunodepletion, suggesting specific interactions with species involved in uptake. Among the seven antibodies evaluated, 6C5 most efficiently blocked uptake and subsequent aggregation. More important, 6C5 also blocked neuron-to-neuron spreading of tau in a unique three-chamber microfluidic device. Furthermore, 6C5 slowed down the progression of tau aggregation even after uptake had begun. Our results imply that not all antibodies/epitopes are equally robust in terms of blocking tau uptake of human AD-derived tau species.
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