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        <journal-title>Cosmological and Astrobiological Review</journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="ppub">0000-0000</issn>
      <issn pub-type="epub">0000-0000</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>SAPCRAA</publisher-name>
        <publisher-loc>Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina</publisher-loc>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">1523</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">https://doi.org/10.65932/CAR-2024-1-6</article-id>
      <title-group>
        <article-title>Linc complex mechanobiophysics and the translational landscape of nuclear mechanopathologies: a comprehensive review and the lmtri readiness framework</article-title>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Bokuchava</surname>
            <given-names>Eka</given-names>
          </name>
          <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0009-0001-6671-0211</contrib-id>
        </contrib>
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      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>30</day>
        <month>12</month>
        <year>2024</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>2</volume>
      <issue>1</issue>
      <fpage>71</fpage>
      <lpage>82</lpage>
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        <p>The linker of nucleoskeleton and cytoskeleton (LINC) complex — composed of SUNdomain proteins traversing the inner nuclear membrane and KASH-domain nesprins traversing the outer nuclear membrane, together physically coupling the cytoskeleton to the nuclear lamina and chromatin — has, over the 2016-2023 window, moved from a structurally-characterised molecular assembly to a central explanatory node in a broad family of mechanopathologies. Five disease categories have, in this window, accumulated substantial mechanistic and clinical evidence linking LINC dysfunction or LINC-coupled lamin defects to human pathology: LMNA-related dilated cardiomyopathy with conduction-system involvement, Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy (EDMD) arising from mutations in EMD, LMNA, SYNE1, SYNE2, SUN1, and SUN2, Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome (HGPS) caused by aberrant LMNA splicing producing the toxic progerin protein, mechanobiologically-mediated cancer invasion and metastasis through LINC-coupled nuclear deformation during confined migration, and an emerging set of neuronal and developmental disorders linked to nesprin and lamin defects. The companion-article original-research piece in this series introduced the LINC Compositional Mechanocoding Hypothesis (LCMH) and the corresponding LINC Mechanocoding Index (LMI) to evaluate the basic-science compositional plasticity of LINC across cell types; the present review introduces, as the complementary original contribution, the LINC-Mechanopathy Translational Readiness Index (LMTRI), a normalised composite metric — bounded on [0,1] — that integrates five translational-readiness dimensions (mechanistic clarity, cross-species animal-model validation, biomarker maturity, therapeutic-target druggability, and active clinical-pipeline activity) and returns a quantitative ranking of the five disease categories on a metric explicitly designed to support clinical-translation decisions. Applied to the five canonical disease categories, LMTRI returns the highest readiness score for Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome (≈0.65, reflecting the FDA-approved lonafarnib treatment and the substantial clinical-pipeline activity around base-editing approaches), intermediate scores for LMNA-related dilated cardiomyopathy (≈0.50) and Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy (≈0.45), and lower scores for LINC-mediated cancer invasion (≈0.35) and emerging neuronal disorders (≈0.28).</p>
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        <kwd>LINC complex</kwd>
        <kwd>SUN proteins</kwd>
        <kwd>nesprins</kwd>
        <kwd>nuclear envelope</kwd>
        <kwd>lamin A/C</kwd>
        <kwd>LMNA</kwd>
        <kwd>mechanopathology</kwd>
        <kwd>dilated cardiomyopathy</kwd>
        <kwd>Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy</kwd>
        <kwd>Hutchinson-Gilford progeria</kwd>
        <kwd>translational readiness</kwd>
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