{"title":"Mutant tau filaments from some inherited frontotemporal dementias show the Alzheimer fold","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41594-025-01499-4","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Frontotemporal dementias can be caused by mutations in MAPT, which encodes the protein tau; the mutant protein forms harmful aggregates in the brain. Cryo-electron microscopy of tau filaments from individuals with mutant V337M and R406W tau show the Alzheimer fold.","PeriodicalId":18822,"journal":{"name":"Nature structural & molecular biology","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Nature structural & molecular biology","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41594-025-01499-4","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Frontotemporal dementias can be caused by mutations in MAPT, which encodes the protein tau; the mutant protein forms harmful aggregates in the brain. Cryo-electron microscopy of tau filaments from individuals with mutant V337M and R406W tau show the Alzheimer fold.