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© 2022. The Author(s). Parkinson's disease (PD) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) are characterized by pathological accumulation and aggregation of different amyloidogenic proteins, α-synuclein (aSyn) in PD, and amyloid-β (Aβ) and Tau in AD. Strikingly, few PD and AD patients' brains exhibit pure pathology with most cases presenting mixed types of protein deposits in the brain. Bimolecular fluorescence complementation (BiFC) is a technique based on the complementation of two halves of a fluorescent protein, which allows direct visualization of protein-protein interactions. In the present study, we assessed the ability of aSyn and Tau to interact with each other. For in vitro evaluation, HEK293 and human neuroblastoma cells were used, while in vivo studies were performed by AAV6 injection in the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNpc) of mice and rats. We observed that the co-expression of aSyn and Tau led to the emergence of fluorescence, reflecting the interaction of the proteins in cell lines, as well as in mouse and rat SNpc. Thus, our data indicates that aSyn and Tau are able to interact with each other in a biologically relevant context, and that the BiFC assay is an effective tool for studying aSyn-Tau interactions in vitro and in different rodent models in vivo.
Author(s): Torres-Garcia L, P Domingues JM, Brandi E, Haikal C, Mudannayake JM, Bras IC, Gerhardt E, Li W, Svanbergsson A, Outeiro TF, Gouras GK, Li J-Y
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Scientific Reports
Year: 2022
Volume: 12
Issue: 1
Online publication date: 22/02/2022
Acceptance date: 31/01/2022
Date deposited: 04/04/2022
ISSN (electronic): 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
URL: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-06846-9
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-06846-9
PubMed id: 35194057
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