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EMD

Chr Xq28

emerin

Aliases:
STA, LEMD5
MANE:
ENST00000369842.9

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Predicted protein structure

Clinical relevance (Genomics England PanelApp)

Diagnostic Grade (Green)

  • Congenital muscular dystrophy

    X-LINKED: hemizygous mutation in males, biallelic mutations in females
  • Dilated and arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy

    X-LINKED: hemizygous mutation in males, biallelic mutations in females
  • Fetal anomalies

    X-LINKED: hemizygous mutation in males, biallelic mutations in females
  • Limb girdle muscular dystrophies, myofibrillar myopathies and distal myopathies

    X-LINKED: hemizygous mutation in males, monoallelic mutations in females may cause disease (may be less severe, later onset than males)
  • Paediatric or syndromic cardiomyopathy

    X-LINKED: hemizygous mutation in males, monoallelic mutations in females may cause disease (may be less severe, later onset than males)
  • Progressive cardiac conduction disease

    X-LINKED: hemizygous mutation in males, biallelic mutations in females
  • Arthrogryposis

    X-LINKED: hemizygous mutation in males, biallelic mutations in females
  • Dilated Cardiomyopathy and conduction defects

    X-LINKED: hemizygous mutation in males, biallelic mutations in females

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Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • X-linked Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy

    0.80
  • Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy

    0.70
  • Abnormality of the cardiovascular system

    0.51
  • neuromuscular disease

    0.46
  • heart conduction disease

    0.37
  • myopathy

    0.35
  • X-linked myopathy with postural muscle atrophy

    0.35
  • neurodegenerative disease

    0.34
  • Failure to thrive

    0.34
  • Flexion contracture

    0.34

Score is the Open Targets composite evidence score (0-1). Higher = stronger gene-disease association.

Protein function (UniProt)

Emerin

Stabilizes and promotes the formation of a nuclear actin cortical network. Stimulates actin polymerization in vitro by binding and stabilizing the pointed end of growing filaments (PubMed:15328537). Inhibits beta-catenin activity by preventing its accumulation in the nucleus. Acts by influencing the nuclear accumulation of beta-catenin through a CRM1-dependent export pathway (PubMed:16858403). Links centrosomes to the nuclear envelope via a microtubule association (PubMed:17785515). Required for proper localization of non-farnesylated prelamin-A/C (PubMed:19323649). Together with NEMP1, contributes to nuclear envelope stiffness in germ cells (PubMed:32923640). EMD and BAF are cooperative cofactors of HIV-1 infection. Association of EMD with the viral DNA requires the presence of BAF and viral integrase. The association of viral DNA with chromatin requires the presence of BAF and EMD

Data sources: HGNC (CC BY 4.0), AlphaFold (CC BY 4.0, Jumper et al. Nature 2021), Genomics England PanelApp (CC BY 4.0), ClinGen, Open Targets (CC0), UniProt.

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