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CLINICAL SCIENCE
Volume 134, Issue 16, Pages 2177-2187Publisher
PORTLAND PRESS LTD
DOI: 10.1042/CS20190066
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- Medical Research Council of the UK [MR/S023593/1]
- British Heart Foundation [FS/17/57/32934]
- King's BHF Centre for Award Excellence [RE/18/2/34213]
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Skeletal muscle weakness is an important determinant of age-related declines in independence and quality of life but its causes remain unclear. Accelerated ageing syndromes such as Hutchinson-Gilford Progerin Syndrome, caused by mutations in genes encoding nuclear envelope proteins, have been extensively studied to aid our understanding of the normal biological ageing process. Like several other pathologies associated with genetic defects to nuclear envelope proteins including Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy, Limb-Girdle muscular dystrophy and congenital muscular dystrophy, these disorders can lead to severe muscle dysfunction. Here, we first describe the structure and function of nuclear envelope proteins, and then review the mechanisms by which mutations in genes encoding nuclear envelope proteins induce premature ageing diseases and muscle pathologies. In doing so, we highlight the potential importance of such genes in processes leading to skeletal muscle weakness in old age.
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