The authors state that “perturbation of the transport of a limited set of proteins has been occasionally reported for other neurodegenerative diseases [than Alzheimer's].” In fact, we have shown that the anterograde transport of distinct cargos is impaired in our K369I tau transgenic K3 mice and in Alzheimer disease brain.

References:
Ittner LM, Fath T, Ke Y, Bi M, van Eersel J, Li KM, Gunning P, Götz J (2008) Parkinsonism and impaired axonal transport in a mouse model of frontotemporal dementia, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 105: 15997-16002. Abstract

Ittner LM, Ke YD, Götz J (2009) Phosphorylated tau interacts with JNK interacting protein 1 (JIP1) in Alzheimer’s disease, J. Biol. Chem. 284: 20909-16. Abstract

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