Nuclear membrane diversity: underlying tissue-specific pathologies in disease?

Human ‘laminopathy’ diseases result from mutations in genes encoding nuclear lamins or nuclear envelope (NE) transmembrane proteins (NETs). These diseases present a seeming paradox: the mutated proteins are widely expressed yet pathology is limited to specific tissues. New findings suggest tissue-sp...

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Published in:Current opinion in cell biology 2015-06, Vol.34, p.101-112
Main Authors: Worman, Howard J, Schirmer, Eric C
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biological Transport
Cytoskeleton - metabolism
Humans
Internal Medicine
Nuclear Envelope - metabolism
Nuclear Proteins - metabolism
Organ Specificity
Signal Transduction - genetics
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Summary:Human ‘laminopathy’ diseases result from mutations in genes encoding nuclear lamins or nuclear envelope (NE) transmembrane proteins (NETs). These diseases present a seeming paradox: the mutated proteins are widely expressed yet pathology is limited to specific tissues. New findings suggest tissue-specific pathologies arise because these widely expressed proteins act in various complexes that include tissue-specific components. Diverse mechanisms to achieve NE tissue-specificity include tissue-specific regulation of the expression, mRNA splicing, signaling, NE-localization and interactions of potentially hundreds of tissue-specific NETs. New findings suggest these NETs underlie tissue-specific NE roles in cytoskeletal mechanics, cell-cycle regulation, signaling, gene expression and genome organization. This view of the NE as ‘specialized’ in each cell type is important to understand the tissue-specific pathology of NE-linked diseases.
ISSN:0955-0674
1879-0410
DOI:10.1016/j.ceb.2015.06.003