Phosphorylation of S396 and S400 Promotes Tau Self-Assembly and Favors the Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) Protofilament Fold
Wyatt C. Powell, N. Yan, Eric Tse, Arthur A Melo, Nathaniel Sin, Daniel R. Southworth, Jason E. Gestwicki
The paper investigates how phosphorylation at specific sites affects tau self-assembly, finding that S396 and S400 phosphorylation promotes aggregation while T403 and S404 phosphorylation suppresses it, with pS400 forming a CTE protofilament structure.
bioRxiv · May 21, 2026 · PreprintBiochemistry