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ZMPSTE24 missense mutations that cause progeroid diseases decrease prelamin A cleavage activity and/or protein stability.
Disease models & mechanisms - 13 Jul 2018
Spear Eric D, Hsu Erh-Ting, Nie Laiyin, Carpenter Elisabeth P, Hrycyna Christine A, Michaelis Susan
Abstract excerpt
The human zinc metalloprotease ZMPSTE24 is an integral membrane protein crucial for the final step in the biogenesis of the nuclear scaffold protein lamin A, encoded by LMNA After farnesylation and carboxyl methylation of its C-terminal CAAX motif, the lamin A precursor (prelamin A) undergoes proteolytic removal of its modified C-terminal 15 amino acids by ZMPSTE24. Mutations in LMNA or ZMPSTE24 that impede this...
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