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Yasutaka Wada, Koichi Ishiguro, Tomohiko J. Itoh, Tsuneko Uchida, Hirokazu Hotani, Taro Saito, Takeo Kishimoto, Shin-ichi Hisanaga, Microtubule-Stimulated Phosphorylation of tau at Ser202 and Thr205 by cdk5 Decreases Its Microtubule Nucleation Activity, The Journal of Biochemistry, Volume 124, Issue 4, October 1998, Pages 738–746, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a022174
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Abstract
Phosphorylation of tau, a heat-stable neuron-specific microtubule-associated protein, by cdk5 was stimulated in the presence of microtubules (MTs). This stimulation was due to an increased phosphorylation rate and there was no increase in total amount of phosphorylation. Two-dimensional phosphopeptide map analysis showed that MTs stimulated phosphorylation of a specific peptide. Using Western blotting with antibodies that the recognized phosphorylation-dependent epitopes within tau, the phosphorylation sites stimulated by the presence of MTs were found to be Ser202 and Thr205 (numbered according to the human tau isoform containing 441 residues). MT-dependent phosphorylation at Thr205 was observed in situ in rat cerebrum primary cultured neurons. Stimulated phosphorylation at Ser202 and Thr205 decreased the MT-nucleation activity of tau, which is in contrast to MT-independent phosphorylation at Ser235 and Ser404.