Spread of pathological tau proteins through communicating neurons in human Alzheimer’s disease

著者: Jacob W. Vogel, Yasser Iturria‐Medina, Olof Strandberg, Ruben Smith, Elizabeth Levitis, Alan C. Evans, Oskar Hansson, Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, Michael W. Weiner, Paul Aisen, Ronald Petersen, Clifford R. Jack, William J. Jagust, John Q. Trojanowki, Arthur W. Toga, Laurel Beckett, Robert C. Green, Andrew J. Saykin, John R. Morris, Leslie M. Shaw, Enchi Liu, Tom Montine, Ronald G. Thomas, Michael Donohue, Sarah Walter, Devon Gessert, Tamie Sather, Gus Jiminez, Danielle Harvey, Michael Donohue, Matt A. Bernstein, Nick C. Fox, Paul M. Thompson, Norbert Schuff, Charles DeCarli, Bret Borowski, Jeff Gunter, Matthew L. Senjem, Prashanthi Vemuri, David T. Jones, Kejal Kantarci, Chad Ward, Robert A. Koeppe, Norm Foster, Eric M. Reiman, Kewei Chen, Chet Mathis, Susan Landau, Nigel J. Cairns, Erin Householder, Lisa Taylor Reinwald, Virginia M.‐Y. Lee, Magdalena Korecka, Michal Figurski, Karen Crawford, Scott Neu, Tatiana Foroud, Steven G. Potkin, Li Shen, Kelley Faber, Sungeun Kim, Kwangsik Nho, Zaven Kachaturian, Richard Frank, Peter J. Snyder, Susan Molchan, Jeffrey Kaye, Joseph F. Quinn, Betty Lind, Raina Carter, Sara Dolen, Lon S. Schneider, Sonia Pawluczyk, Mauricio Beccera, Liberty Teodoro, Bryan M. Spann, James M. Brewer, Helen Vanderswag, Adam Fleisher, Judith L. Heidebrink, Joanne Lord, Ronald Petersen, Sara S. Mason, Colleen S. Albers, David S. Knopman, Kris Johnson, Rachelle S. Doody, Javier Villanueva Meyer, Munir Chowdhury, Susan Rountree, Mimi Dang, Yaakov Stern, Lawrence S. Honig, Karen L. Bell, Beau M. Ances, John C. Morris, Maria Carroll, Sue Leon, Erin Householder, Mark A. Mintun, Stacy Schneider, Angela OliverNG, Randall Griffith, David W. Clark, David Geldmacher, John Brockington, Erik D. Roberson, Hillel Grossman, Effie Mitsis, Leyla de Toledo‐Morrell, Raj C. Shah, Ranjan Duara, Daniel Varón, Maria T. Greig, Peggy Roberts, Marilyn Albert, Chiadi Onyike, Daniel D’Agostino, Stephanie Kielb, James E. Galvin, Dana M. Pogorelec, Brittany Cerbone, Christina A. Michel, Henry Rusinek, Mony J. de Leon, Lidia Glodzik, Susan De Santi, P. Murali Doraiswamy, Jeffrey R. Petrella, Terence Z. Wong, Steven E. Arnold, Jason H. Karlawish, David A. Wolk, Charles D. Smith, Gregory A. Jicha, Peter Hardy, Partha Sinha, Elizabeth Oates, Gary Conrad, Oscar L. López, MaryAnn Oakley, Donna M. Simpson, Anton P. Porsteinsson, Bonnie S. Goldstein, Kim Martin, Kelly M. Makino, M. Saleem Ismail, Connie Brand, Ruth A. Mulnard, Gaby Thai, Catherine Mc Adams Ortiz, Kyle Womack, Dana Mathews, Mary Quiceno, Ramon Diaz Arrastia, Richard King, Myron Weiner, Kristen Martin Cook, Michael D. Devous, Allan I. Levey, James J. Lah, Janet S. Cellar, Jeffrey M. Burns, Heather S. Anderson, Russell H. Swerdlow, Liana Apostolova, Kathleen Tingus, Ellen Woo, Daniel Silverman, Po H. Lu, George Bartzokis, Neill R. Graff Radford, Francine Parfitt, Tracy Kendall, Heather Johnson, Martin R. Farlow, Ann Marie Hake, Brandy R. Matthews, Scott Herring, Cynthia Hunt, Christopher H. van Dyck, Richard E. Carson, Martha G. MacAvoy, Howard Chertkow, Howard Bergman, Chris Hosein, Sandra E. Black, Bojana Stefanovic, Curtis Caldwell, Ging‐Yuek Robin Hsiung, Howard Feldman, Benita Mudge, Michele Assaly Past, Andrew Kertesz, John Rogers, Dick Trost, Charles Bernick, Donna Munic, Diana Kerwin, Marek Marsel Mesulam, Kristine Lipowski, Chuang Wu, Nancy E. Johnson, Carl Sadowsky, Walter Martínez, Teresa Villena, Raymond Scott Turner, Kathleen Johnson, Brigid Reynolds, Reisa A. Sperling, Keith A. Johnson, Gad Marshall, Meghan Frey, Jerome A. Yesavage, Joy L. Taylor, Barton Lane, Allyson Rosen, Jared Tinklenberg, Marwan N. Sabbagh, Christine M. Belden, Sandra A. Jacobson, Sherye A. Sirrel, Neil W. Kowall, Ronald Killiany, Andrew E. Budson, Alexander Norbash, Patricia Lynn Johnson, Thomas O. Obisesan, Saba Wolday, Joanne Allard, Alan J. Lerner, Paula Ogrocki, Leon Hudson, Evan Fletcher, Owen Carmichael, John Olichney, Charles DeCarli, Smita Kittur, Michael Borrie, T. Y. Lee, Robert Bartha, Sterling C. Johnson, Sanjay Asthana, Cynthia M. Carlsson, Steven Potkin, Adrian Preda, Dana Nguyen, Pierre N. Tariot, Adam Fleisher, Stephanie Reeder, Vernice Bates, Horacio Capote, Michelle Rainka, Douglas W. Scharre, Maria Kataki, Anahita Adeli, Earl A. Zimmerman, Dzintra Celmins, Alice D. Brown, Godfrey D. Pearlson, Karen Blank, Karen Anderson, Robert B. Santulli, Tamar J. Kitzmiller, Eben S. Schwartz, Kaycee M. SinkS, Jeff D. Williamson, Pradeep Garg, Franklin Watkins, Brian R. Ott, Henry Querfurth, Geoffrey Tremont, Stephen Salloway, Paul Malloy, Stephen Correia, Howard J. Rosen, Bruce L. Miller, Jacobo Mintzer, Kenneth Spicer, David Bachman, Elizabeth Finger, Stephen Pasternak, Irina Rachinsky, John Rogers, Andrew Kertesz, Dick Drost, Nunzio Pomara, Raymundo Hernando, Antero Sarrael, Susan K. Schultz, Laura L. Boles Ponto, Hyungsub Shim, Karen E. Smith, Norman Relkin, Gloria Chaing, Lisa Raudin, Amanda Smith, Kristin Fargher, Balebail Ashok Raj, the Swedish BioFinder Study, Emelie Andersson, David Berron, Elin Byman, Tone Sundberg-Brorsson, Administrator, Emma Borland, Anna Callmer, Cecilia Dahl, Eske Christiane Gertje, Anna‐Märta Gustavsson, Joanna Grzegorska, Sara Hall, Oskar Hansson, Philip S. Insel, Shorena Janelidze, Maurits Johansson, Helena Sletten, Jonas Jester-Broms, Elisabet Londos, N. S. Mattson, Lennart Minthon, Maria H Nilsson, Rosita Nordkvist, Katarina Nägga, Camilla Orbjörn, Rik Ossenkoppele, Sebastian Palmqvist, Marie Persson, Alexander Santillo, Nicola Spotorno, Erik Stomrud, Håkan Toresson, Olof Strandberg, Michael Schöll, Ida M. Friberg, Per Johansson, Moa Wibom, Katarina Johansson, Emma Pettersson, Christin Karremo, Ruben Smith, Yulia Surova, Mattis Jalakas, Jimmy Lätt, Peter Mannfolk, Markus Nilsson, Freddy Ståhlberg, Pia C. Sundgren, Danielle van Westen, Ulf Andréasson, Kaj Blennow, Henrik Zetterberg, Lars‐Olof Wahlund, Eric Westman, Joana B. Pereira, Jonas Jögi, Douglas Hägerström, Tomas Olsson, Per Wollmer - Nature Communications 2020 被引用: 541

Tau is a hallmark pathology of Alzheimer's disease, and animal models have suggested that tau spreads from cell to cell through neuronal connections, facilitated by β-amyloid (Aβ). We test this hypothesis in humans using an epidemic spreading model (ESM) to simulate tau spread, and compare these simulations to observed patterns measured using tau-PET in 312 individuals along Alzheimer's disease continuum. Up to 70% of the variance in the overall spatial pattern of tau can be explained by our model. Surprisingly, the ESM predicts the spatial patterns of tau irrespective of whether brain Aβ is present, but regions with greater Aβ burden show greater tau than predicted by connectivity patterns, suggesting a role of Aβ in accelerating tau spread. Altogether, our results provide evidence in humans that tau spreads through neuronal communication pathways even in normal aging, and that this process is accelerated by the presence of brain Aβ.