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A mutation abolishing the ZMPSTE24 cleavage site in prelamin A causes a progeroid disorder.
Journal of cell science - 15 May 2016
Wang Yuexia, Lichter-Konecki Uta, Anyane-Yeboa Kwame, Shaw Jessica E, Lu Jonathan T, Östlund Cecilia, Shin Ji-Yeon, Clark Lorraine N, Gundersen Gregg G, Nagy Peter L, Worman Howard J
Abstract excerpt
In 1994 in the Journal of Cell Science, Hennekes and Nigg reported that changing valine to arginine at the endoproteolytic cleavage site in chicken prelamin A abolishes its conversion to lamin A. The consequences of this mutation in an organism have remained unknown. We now report that the corresponding mutation in a human subject leads to accumulation of prelamin A and causes a progeroid disorder. Next...
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