Methods for high throughput discovery of fluoroprobes that recognize tau fibril polymorphs
Carroll, E. C.; Yang, H. E.; Jones, J. G.; Oehler, A.; Charvat, A. F.; Montgomery, K. M.; Yung, A.; Millbern, Z.; Vinueza, N. R.; Degrado, W. F.; Mordes, D. A.; Condello, C.; Gestwicki, J. E.
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Aggregation of microtubule-associated protein tau (MAPT/tau) into conformationally distinct fibrils underpins neurodegenerative tauopathies. Fluorescent probes (fluoroprobes), such as thioflavin T (ThT), have been essential tools for studying tau aggregation; however, most of them do not discriminate between amyloid fibril conformations (polymorphs). This gap is due, in part, to a lack of high-throughput methods for screening large, diverse chemical collections. Here, we leverage advances in protein adaptive differential scanning fluorimetry (paDSF) to screen the Aurora collection of 300+ fluorescent dyes against multiple synthetic tau fibril polymorphs. This screen, coupled with orthogonal secondary assays, revealed pan-fibril binding chemotypes, as well as fluoroprobes selective for subsets of fibrils. One fluoroprobe recognized tau pathology in ex vivo brain slices from Alzheimers disease patients. We propose that these scaffolds represent entry points for development of selective fibril ligands and, more broadly, that high throughput, fluorescence-based dye screening is a platform for their discovery.
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