How short peptides can disassemble ultra-stable tau fibrils extracted from Alzheimers disease brain by a strain-relief mechanism
Ke Hou, Peng Ge, Michael R. Sawaya, Joshua L. Dolinsky, Yuan Yang, Yi Xiao Jiang, Liisa Lutter, David R. Boyer, Xinyi Cheng, Justin Pi, Jeffrey Zhang, Jiahui Lu, Shixin Yang, Zhiheng Yu, Juli F. Feigon, David S Eisenberg
The paper shows a D-peptide disassembles AD-tau fibrils via a strain-relief mechanism involving oppositely twisted fibrils.
bioRxiv · Mar 25, 2024 · PreprintNeuroscience