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Nuclear stiffening and chromatin softening with progerin expression leads to an attenuated nuclear response to force.
Soft matter - 28 Aug 2015
Booth Elizabeth A, Spagnol Stephen T, Alcoser Turi A, Dahl Kris Noel
Abstract excerpt
Progerin is a mutant form of the nucleoskeletal protein lamin A, and its expression results in the rare premature aging disorder Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome (HGPS). Patients with HGPS demonstrate several characteristic signs of aging including cardiovascular and skeletal dysfunction. Cells from HGPS patients show several nuclear abnormalities including aberrant morphology, nuclear stiffening and loss of...
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