Aix Marseille Université, UMR S 910: Génétique médicale et génomique fonctionnelle, Faculté de médecine Timone, Marseille, France.

Metformin decreases progerin expression and alleviates pathological defects of Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome cell...

Published in NPJ aging and mechanisms of disease

Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome (HGPS) is a rare genetic disorder that causes systemic accelerated aging in children. This syndrome is due to a mutation in the LMNA gene that leads to the production of a truncated and toxic form of lamin A called progerin. Because the balance between the A-type lamins is controlled by the RNA-binding protein S...