Heart to heart: from nuclear proteins to Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy.
Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy has some remarkably specific features, with only cardiac and skeletal tissues being affected. Equally remarkably, the disease is caused by mutations in widely expressed genes for the nuclear membrane/lamina proteins, emerin and lamin A/C. How do mutations in proteins at the heart of the cell lead to stiff joints and sudden heart failure? This and related questions are the subject of this review.
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MRIC Biochemistry Group, NE Wales Institute, Wrexham, UK. morrisge@newi.ac.uk
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D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006321:Heart / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D034904:Lamin Type A; D034882:Lamins; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D020389:Muscular Dystrophy, Emery-Dreifuss / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D009154:Mutation / Q000235:genetics; D009685:Nuclear Envelope / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D009687:Nuclear Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D013946:Thymopoietins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism
D034904:Lamin Type A; D034882:Lamins; D008565:Membrane Proteins; D009687:Nuclear Proteins; D013946:Thymopoietins; C092710:emerin