Pelger-Huët anomaly and Greenberg skeletal dysplasia: LBR-associated diseases of cholesterol metabolism

Lamin B Receptor (LBR) is an inner nuclear membrane protein associated with the rare human diseases Pelger-Huët anomaly and Greenberg skeletal dysplasia. A new study has used CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genetic manipulations in a human cell system to determine that the molecular etiology of these previousl...

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Published in:Rare diseases (Austin, Tex.) Tex.), 2016, Vol.4 (1), p.e1241363-e1241363
Main Authors: Turner, Elizabeth M., Schlieker, Christian
Format: Article
Language:English
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ERAD
Greenberg skeletal dysplasia
laminopathy
nuclear envelope
Pelger-Huët anomaly
proteasome
protein quality control
sterol C14 reductase
sterol metabolism
ubiquitin
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Summary:Lamin B Receptor (LBR) is an inner nuclear membrane protein associated with the rare human diseases Pelger-Huët anomaly and Greenberg skeletal dysplasia. A new study has used CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genetic manipulations in a human cell system to determine that the molecular etiology of these previously poorly understood disorders is a defect in cholesterol synthesis due to loss of LBR-associated sterol C14 reductase activity. The study furthermore determined that disease-associated LBR point mutations reduce sterol C14 reductase activity by decreasing the affinity of LBR for the reducing agent NADPH. Moreover, two disease-associated LBR truncation mutants were found to be highly unstable at the protein level and are rapidly turned over by a novel nuclear membrane-based protein quality control pathway. Thus, truncated LBR variants can now be used as model substrates for further investigations of nuclear protein quality control to uncover possible implications for other disease-associated nuclear envelopathies.
ISSN:2167-5511
2167-5511
DOI:10.1080/21675511.2016.1241363