Cytoskeletal Imbalance and Axonal Vulnerability in Sporadic PSP-RS: Early Changes in a Human iPSC-Derived Neuronal Model with Altered mTOR Signaling
Raffaele Covello·Elvira Immacolata Parrotta·Stefania Scalise·Caterina Gabriele·Desirèe Valente·Clara Zannino·Barbara Puccio·Andrea Quattrone·Pietro Hiram Guzzi·Marco Gaspari·Aldo Quattrone·Giovanni Cuda·Giorgia Lucia Benedetto
Progressive supranuclear palsy-Richardson’s syndrome (PSP-RS) is a primary 4R tauopathy in which early axonal dysfunction may precede overt neurodegeneration; however, the mechanisms linking Tau dysregulation to cytoskeletal vulnerability remain poorly defined. Here, we generated induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived midbrain dopaminergic neurons from individuals with sporadic PSP-RS and matched healthy controls and performed integrated transcriptomic and proteomic analyses. PSP-RS neuron