@inbook{f8805fa340f744efa138d7b79af3c242,
title = "FRET and flow cytometry assays to measure proteopathic seeding activity in biological samples",
abstract = "Transcellular propagation of protein aggregates—or seeds—is increasingly implicated as a mechanism for disease progression in many neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer{\textquoteright}s disease and the related tauopathies. While neuropathology generally originates in one discrete brain region, pathology progresses as disease severity advances, often along discrete neural networks. The stereotypical spread of tau pathology suggests that cell-to-cell transfer of toxic protein aggregates could underlie disease progression, and recent studies implicate seeding as a proximal marker of disease, as compared to standard histological and biochemical analyses. Commonly used metrics for protein aggregation detection, however, lack sensitivity, are not quantitative, and/or undergo subjective classification. Here, we describe a FRET and flow cytometry cell-based assay that allows for rapid and quantitative detection of protein aggregates from human and rodent biological specimens.",
keywords = "FRET, Flow cytometry, Huntingtin, Mouse model, Neurodegeneration, Prion, Protein aggregation, Spread, Synuclein, Tau",
author = "Furman, {Jennifer L.} and Diamond, {Marc I.}",
note = "Funding Information: We thank Brandon B. Holmes for his experimental insight and contributions to the assay development. This work was supported by the Tau Consortium (M.I.D.); National Institutes of Health 1R01NS071835 (M.I.D.) and 1F32NS087805 (J.L.F.). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Springer Science+Business Media New York 2017.",
year = "2017",
doi = "10.1007/978-1-4939-6598-4_23",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Methods in Molecular Biology",
publisher = "Humana Press Inc.",
pages = "349--359",
booktitle = "Methods in Molecular Biology",
}