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An accumulation of non-farnesylated prelamin A causes cardiomyopathy but not progeria.

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Davies, BSJ; Barnes, RH; Tu, Y; Ren, S; Andres, DA; Spielmann, HP; Lammerding, J; Wang, Y; Young, SG; Fong, LG
Published in: Hum Mol Genet
July 1, 2010

Lamin A is formed from prelamin A by four post-translational processing steps-farnesylation, release of the last three amino acids of the protein, methylation of the farnesylcysteine and the endoproteolytic release of the C-terminal 15 amino acids (including the farnesylcysteine methyl ester). When the final processing step does not occur, a farnesylated and methylated prelamin A accumulates in cells, causing a severe progeroid disease, restrictive dermopathy (RD). Whether RD is caused by the retention of farnesyl lipid on prelamin A, or by the retention of the last 15 amino acids of the protein, is unknown. To address this issue, we created knock-in mice harboring a mutant Lmna allele (LmnanPLAO) that yields exclusively non-farnesylated prelamin A (and no lamin C). These mice had no evidence of progeria but succumbed to cardiomyopathy. We suspected that the non-farnesylated prelamin A in the tissues of these mice would be strikingly mislocalized to the nucleoplasm, but this was not the case; most was at the nuclear rim (indistinguishable from the lamin A in wild-type mice). The cardiomyopathy could not be ascribed to an absence of lamin C because mice expressing an otherwise identical knock-in allele yielding only wild-type prelamin A appeared normal. We conclude that lamin C synthesis is dispensable in mice and that the failure to convert prelamin A to mature lamin A causes cardiomyopathy (at least in the absence of lamin C). The latter finding is potentially relevant to the long-term use of protein farnesyltransferase inhibitors, which lead to an accumulation of non-farnesylated prelamin A.

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Hum Mol Genet

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1460-2083

Publication Date

July 1, 2010

Volume

19

Issue

13

Start / End Page

2682 / 2694

Location

England

Related Subject Headings

  • Protein Prenylation
  • Protein Precursors
  • Progeria
  • Nuclear Proteins
  • Models, Animal
  • Mice, Inbred Strains
  • Mice
  • Lamin Type A
  • Genetics & Heredity
  • Gene Knock-In Techniques
 

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Davies, B. S. J., Barnes, R. H., Tu, Y., Ren, S., Andres, D. A., Spielmann, H. P., … Fong, L. G. (2010). An accumulation of non-farnesylated prelamin A causes cardiomyopathy but not progeria. Hum Mol Genet, 19(13), 2682–2694. https://doi.org/10.1093/hmg/ddq158
Davies, Brandon S. J., Richard H. Barnes, Yiping Tu, Shuxun Ren, Douglas A. Andres, H Peter Spielmann, Jan Lammerding, Yibin Wang, Stephen G. Young, and Loren G. Fong. “An accumulation of non-farnesylated prelamin A causes cardiomyopathy but not progeria.Hum Mol Genet 19, no. 13 (July 1, 2010): 2682–94. https://doi.org/10.1093/hmg/ddq158.
Davies BSJ, Barnes RH, Tu Y, Ren S, Andres DA, Spielmann HP, et al. An accumulation of non-farnesylated prelamin A causes cardiomyopathy but not progeria. Hum Mol Genet. 2010 Jul 1;19(13):2682–94.
Davies, Brandon S. J., et al. “An accumulation of non-farnesylated prelamin A causes cardiomyopathy but not progeria.Hum Mol Genet, vol. 19, no. 13, July 2010, pp. 2682–94. Pubmed, doi:10.1093/hmg/ddq158.
Davies BSJ, Barnes RH, Tu Y, Ren S, Andres DA, Spielmann HP, Lammerding J, Wang Y, Young SG, Fong LG. An accumulation of non-farnesylated prelamin A causes cardiomyopathy but not progeria. Hum Mol Genet. 2010 Jul 1;19(13):2682–2694.
Journal cover image

Published In

Hum Mol Genet

DOI

EISSN

1460-2083

Publication Date

July 1, 2010

Volume

19

Issue

13

Start / End Page

2682 / 2694

Location

England

Related Subject Headings

  • Protein Prenylation
  • Protein Precursors
  • Progeria
  • Nuclear Proteins
  • Models, Animal
  • Mice, Inbred Strains
  • Mice
  • Lamin Type A
  • Genetics & Heredity
  • Gene Knock-In Techniques