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SUBMITTER: Wang P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6193484 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wang Peng P Lo Cascio Filippa F Gao Jia J Kayed Rakez R Huang Xuefei X
Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) 20180901 72
Well-defined heparin like oligosaccharides up to decasaccharides were synthesized. It was discovered for the first time that heparin oligosaccharides, as short as tetrasaccharides, can bind with the most toxic tau species, i.e., tau oligomers with nM KD. The binding significantly reduced the cellular uptake of toxic tau oligomers and protected the cells from tau oligomer induced cytotoxicity. ...[more]