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These pathological tau inclusions are altered by various post-translational modifications (PTMs) that include phosphorylation, acetylation, and methylation. Tau methylation has emerged as a target of interest for its potential involvement in tau pathomechanisms. Filamentous tau aggregates isolated from patients with AD are methylated at multiple lysine residues, although the exact methyltransferases have not been identified. One strategy to study the site-specific effects of methylation is to create methylation mimetics using a KFC model, which replaces lysine (K) with a hydrophobic group such as phenylalanine (F) to approximate the effects of lysine methylation (C or methyl group). In this study, tau methylmimetics were used to model several functional aspects of tau methylation such as effects on microtubule binding and tau aggregation in cell models. Overall, several tau methylmimetics displayed impaired microtubule binding, and tau methylmimetics enhanced prion-like seeded aggregation in the context of the FTD tau mutation P301L. 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