[Detection of Alzheimer type pathological epitopes on Tau proteins of neuroblastoma cells after treatment with okadaic acid]

C R Acad Sci III. 1993;316(5):533-5.
[Article in French]

Abstract

In Alzheimer's disease, Tau proteins are abnormally phosphorylated. In this paper, we describe a cellular model producing such pathological Tau proteins. After differentiation by NGF and treatment with okadaic acid (an inhibitor of phosphatases 1 and 2 A), neuroblastoma SKNSH-SY 5Y cells produced Tau proteins with an increased apparent molecular weight and a more acidic isoelectric point when compared to Tau proteins from control cells. These modified tau proteins bore Alzheimer-type epitopes detectable by antibodies specific to phosphorylated Alzheimer epitopes. This model is the first step toward a pharmacological approach of neuroprotection.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Alzheimer Disease / immunology*
  • Epitopes / analysis*
  • Ethers, Cyclic / pharmacology*
  • Humans
  • Neuroblastoma / pathology*
  • Okadaic Acid
  • Phosphoprotein Phosphatases / antagonists & inhibitors*
  • Phosphoprotein Phosphatases / pharmacology*
  • Tumor Cells, Cultured / drug effects
  • Tumor Cells, Cultured / immunology
  • tau Proteins / immunology*

Substances

  • Epitopes
  • Ethers, Cyclic
  • tau Proteins
  • Okadaic Acid
  • Phosphoprotein Phosphatases