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Tau-Like Proteins in the Nervous System of Goldfish
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Tau-Like Proteins in the Nervous System of Goldfish

Yi Liu, Jun Xia, Dongling Ma, Donald Faber and Itzhak Fischer
Neurochemical research, v 22(12), pp 1511-1516
Dec 1997
PMID: 9357018

Abstract

Biochemistry, general Neurology Neurosciences Biomedicine phylogeny Microtubule associated protein antibodies evolution
This report describes the presence of a group of tau-like proteins (TLPs) in goldfish central nervous system. The TLPs were immunoreactive with antibodies that recognized the carboxy-terminal domain of mammalian tau, but not with antibodies that recognized the amino-terminus. The TLPs of goldfish exhibited the basic properties of tau proteins including neuronal specificity, structural heterogeneity, heat stability and the ability to co-assemble with tubulin. We propose that TLPs may represent a precursor of tau, that share the microtubule binding domain and the carboxy-terminal domain with mammalian tau proteins. In contrast the amino-terminus of the TLPs is much shorter and may represent a more variable domain of tau proteins.

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