It cuts two ways: microtubule loss during Alzheimer disease

Hyperdynamic Microtubules, Cognitive Deficits, and Pathology Are Improved in Tau Transgenic Mice with Low Doses of the Microtubule-Stabilizing Agent BMS-241027

(2012) D. M. Barten et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

The Microtubule-Stabilizing Agent, Epothilone D, Reduces Axonal Dysfunction, Neurotoxicity, Cognitive Deficits, and Alzheimer-Like Pathology in an Interventional Study with Aged Tau Transgenic Mice

(2012) B. Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Strategies for diminishing katanin-based loss of microtubules in tauopathic neurodegenerative diseases

(2010) H. Sudo et al.   HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS

Tubulin polyglutamylation stimulates spastin-mediated microtubule severing

(2010) Benjamin Lacroix et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

A  Oligomers Cause Localized Ca2+ Elevation, Missorting of Endogenous Tau into Dendrites, Tau Phosphorylation, and Destruction of Microtubules and Spines

(2010) H. Zempel et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Quantitative and Functional Analyses of Spastin in the Nervous System: Implications for Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia

(2008) J. M. Solowska et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

The Microtubule-severing Proteins Spastin and Katanin Participate Differently in the Formation of Axonal Branches

(2008) Wenqian Yu et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL

Structural basis of microtubule severing by the hereditary spastic paraplegia protein spastin

(2008) Antonina Roll-Mecak et al.   NATURE

Microtubule-associated protein tau in development, degeneration and protection of neurons

(2008) Jian-Zhi Wang et al.   PROGRESS IN NEUROBIOLOGY