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Title
Repetitive disruptions of the nuclear envelope invoke temporary loss of cellular compartmentalization in laminopathies
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Abstract
The nuclear lamina provides structural support to the nucleus and has a central role in nuclear organization and gene regulation. Defects in its constituents, the lamins, lead to a class of genetic diseases collectively referred to as laminopathies. Using live cell imaging, we observed the occurrence of intermittent, non-lethal ruptures of the nuclear envelope in dermal fibroblast cultures of patients with different mutations of lamin A/C. These ruptures, which were absent in normal fibroblasts, could be mimicked by selective knockdown as well as knockout of LMNA and were accompanied by the loss of cellular compartmentalization. This was demonstrated by the influx of cytoplasmic transcription factor RelA and regulatory protein Cyclin B1 into the nucleus, and efflux of nuclear transcription factor OCT1 and nuclear structures containing the promyelocytic leukemia (PML) tumour suppressor protein to the cytoplasm. While recovery of enhanced yellow fluorescent protein-tagged nuclear localization signal in the nucleus demonstrated restoration of nuclear membrane integrity, part of the mobile PML structures became permanently translocated to the cytoplasm. These satellite PML structures were devoid of the typical PML body components, such as DAXX, SP100 or SUMO1. Our data suggest that nuclear rupture and loss of compartmentalization may add to cellular dysfunction and disease development in various laminopathies.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Human molecular genetics. - Oxford
Publication
Oxford : 2011
ISSN
0964-6906
DOI
10.1093/HMG/DDR344
Volume/pages
20 :21 (2011) , p. 4175-4186
ISI
000295686000008
Full text (Publisher's DOI)
UAntwerpen
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Subject
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Web of Science
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