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Insights into desmosome biology from inherited human skin disease and cardiocutaneous syndromes.

Abstract
The importance of desmosomes in tissue homeostasis is highlighted by natural and engineered mutations in desmosomal genes, which compromise the skin or heart and in some instances both. Desmosomal gene mutations account for 45-50% of cases of arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy, and are mutated in an array of other disorders such as striate palmoplantar keratoderma, hypotrichosis with or without skin vesicles and lethal acantholytic epidermolysis bullosa. Recently, we reported loss-of-function mutations in the human ADAM17 gene, encoding for the 'sheddase' ADAM17, a transmembrane protein which cleaves extracellular domains of substrate proteins including TNF-α, growth factors and desmoglein (DSG) 2. Patients present with cardiomyopathy and an inflammatory skin and bowel syndrome with defective DSG processing. In contrast, the dominantly inherited tylosis with oesophageal cancer appears to result from gain-of-function in ADAM17 due to increased processing via iRHOM2. This review discusses the heterogeneity of mutations in desmosomes and their regulatory proteins.
AuthorsDaniela Nitoiu, Sarah L Etheridge, David P Kelsell
JournalCell communication & adhesion (Cell Commun Adhes) Vol. 21 Issue 3 Pg. 129-40 (Jun 2014) ISSN: 1543-5180 [Electronic] England
PMID24738885 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Review)
Chemical References
  • Desmoplakins
  • ADAM Proteins
  • ADAM17 Protein
  • ADAM17 protein, human
Topics
  • ADAM Proteins (genetics, metabolism)
  • ADAM17 Protein
  • Desmoplakins (genetics, metabolism)
  • Desmosomes (chemistry, genetics, metabolism)
  • Humans
  • LEOPARD Syndrome (genetics, metabolism, pathology)
  • Mutation
  • Skin Diseases (genetics, metabolism, pathology)

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