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Increased solubility of lamins and redistribution of lamin C in X-linked Emery Dreifuss Muscular Dystrophy Fibroblasts

Lookup NU author(s): Professor Christopher Hutchison

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Abstract

Emery–Dreifuss muscular dystrophy (EDMD) is caused by mutations in the gene encoding the nuclear membrane protein emerin (X-linked EDMD) or in the gene encoding lamins A/C (autosomal dominant EDMD). One hypothesis explaining the disease suggests that the mutations lead to weakness of the nuclear lamina. To test this hypothesis we investigated lamin solubility and distribution in skin fibroblasts from X-EDMD patients. Using in situ extraction of cells and immunofluorescence microscopy or biochemical fractionation and immunoblotting, we found that all lamin subtypes displayed increased solubility properties in fibroblasts from X-EDMD patients compared to normal individuals. Lamin and emerin solubility was mildly increased in fibroblasts from an X-EDMD carrier. Biochemical fractionation and immunoblotting also indicated that lamin C but no other lamin became redistributed from the nuclear lamina to the nucleoplasm in X-EDMD fibroblasts. Indirect immunofluorescence and confocal microscopy studies using lamin A- and lamin C-specific antibodies confirmed that lamin C but not lamin A became redistributed to the nucleoplasm. Interestingly, the lamin A/C binding protein LAP2α was also mislocalized in X-EDMD fibroblasts.

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Author(s): Hutchison C; Markiewicz E; Venables R; Alvarez-Reyes M; Quinlan R; Dorobek M; Hausmanowa-Petrucewicz I

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Journal of Structural Biology

Year: 2002

Volume: 140

Issue: 1-3

Pages: 241-253

ISSN (print): 1047-8477

ISSN (electronic): 1095-8657

Publisher: Academic Press

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1047-8477(02)00573-7

DOI: 10.1016/S1047-8477(02)00573-7

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