Protein-coding gene in the species Homo sapiens
ZMPSTE24 is a human gene .[ 1] [ 2] The protein encoded by this gene is a metallopeptidase . It is involved in the processing of lamin A .[ 3] Defects in the ZMPSTE24 gene lead to similar laminopathies as defects in lamin A, because the latter is a substrate for the former.[ 4] In humans, a mutation abolishing the ZMPSTE24 cleavage site in prelamin A causes a progeroid disorder .[ 5] Failure to correctly process prelamin A leads to deficient ability to repair DNA double-strand breaks .[ 6] [ 7]
As shown by Liu et al.,[ 8] lack of Zmpste24 prevents lamin A formation from its precursor farnesyl-prelamin A. Lack of ZMPSTE24 causes progeroid phenotypes in mice and humans. This lack increases DNA damage and chromosome aberrations and sensitivity to DNA-damaging agents that cause double-strand breaks. Also, lack of ZMPSTE24 allows an increase in non-homologous end joining , but a deficiency in steps leading to homologous recombinational DNA repair.
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^ Wang Y, Lichter-Konecki U, Anyane-Yeboa K, Shaw JE, Lu JT, Östlund C, Shin JY, Clark LN, Gundersen GG, Nagy PL, Worman HJ (2016). "A mutation abolishing the ZMPSTE24 cleavage site in prelamin A causes a progeroid disorder" . J. Cell Sci . 129 (10): 1975–80. doi :10.1242/jcs.187302 . PMC 4878994 . PMID 27034136 .
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^ Gonzalo S, Kreienkamp R (2015). "DNA repair defects and genome instability in Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome" . Curr. Opin. Cell Biol . 34 : 75–83. doi :10.1016/j.ceb.2015.05.007 . PMC 4522337 . PMID 26079711 .
^ Liu B, Wang J, Chan KM, Tjia WM, Deng W, Guan X, Huang JD, Li KM, Chau PY, Chen DJ, Pei D, Pendas AM, Cadiñanos J, López-Otín C, Tse HF, Hutchison C, Chen J, Cao Y, Cheah KS, Tryggvason K, Zhou Z (2005). "Genomic instability in laminopathy-based premature aging". Nat. Med . 11 (7): 780–5. doi :10.1038/nm1266 . PMID 15980864 . S2CID 11798376 .