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O-tau and SI<jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>-tau displayed more truncation and less hyperphosphorylation than SI<jats:sub>1<\/jats:sub>-tau. Resistance to proteinase K was increased from O-tau to SI<jats:sub>1<\/jats:sub>-tau to SI<jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>-tau. O-tau and SI<jats:sub>1<\/jats:sub>-tau, but not SI<jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>-tau or HS-tau, captured tau from cell lysates and seeded tau aggregation in cultured cells. Heat treatment could not kill the prion-like activity of O-tau to capture normal tau. Hippocampal injection of O-tau into 18-month-old FVB mice induced significant tau aggregation in both ipsilateral and contralateral hippocampi, but SI<jats:sub>1<\/jats:sub>-tau only induced tau pathology in the ipsilateral hippocampus, and SI<jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>-tau and HS-tau failed to induce any detectable tau aggregation. These findings suggest that O-tau and SI<jats:sub>1<\/jats:sub>-tau have prion-like activities and may serve as seeds to recruit tau and template tau to aggregate, resulting in the propagation of tau pathology. 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