title: Laminopathies.
abstract: Nuclear lamins form a fibrous nucleoskeletal network of intermediate-sized filaments that underlies the inner nuclear membrane. It associates with this membrane through interactions with specific integral nuclear membrane proteins, while within this flattened lamin lattice the nuclear pore complexes are embedded. Next to this peripheral network, the lamins can form intranuclear structures. The lamins are the evolutionary progenitors of the cytoplasmic intermediate filament proteins and have profound influences on nuclear structure and function. These influences require that lamins have dynamic properties and dual identities as structural building blocks on the one hand, and transcription regulators on the other. Which of these identities underlies the laminopathies, a myriad of genetic diseases caused by mutations in lamins or lamin-associated proteins, is a topic of intense debate.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Research Institutes CARIM, GROW, and EURON, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Jos L V
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Broers
authors.forename: Chris J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Hutchison
authors.forename: Frans C S
authors.initials: FC
authors.lastname: Ramaekers
mesh_terms: D000273:Adipose Tissue / Q000378:metabolism; D002843:Chromatin / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D003240:Connective Tissue Diseases / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D003599:Cytoskeleton / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D004247:DNA / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D015870:Gene Expression; D006801:Humans; D007399:Interphase / Q000235:genetics; D034882:Lamins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D008938:Mitosis / Q000235:genetics; D009135:Muscular Diseases / Q000235:genetics; D009154:Mutation; D034881:Nuclear Lamina / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D010523:Peripheral Nervous System Diseases / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D002843:Chromatin; D034882:Lamins; D004247:DNA