| NE | Nuclear envelope |
| LINC | Linker of nucleoskeleton and cytoskeleton |
| EDMD | Emery–Dreifuss muscular dystrophy |
| ADLD | Autosomal dominant leukodystrophy |
| CMT | Charcot–Marie–Tooth |
| HGPS | Hutchinson–Gilford progeria syndrome |
| APLD | Acquired partial lipodystrophy (Barraquer–Simons syndrome) |
| LGMD | Limb–girdle muscular dystrophy |
| PHA | Pelger–Hue’t anomaly |
| HEM/GRBGD | Greenberg hydrops-ectopic calcification-moth-eaten skeletal dysplasia |
| BOS | Buschke–Ollendorff syndrome |
| ECM | Extracellular matrix |
| INM | Inner nuclear membrane |
| NL | Nuclear lamina |
| IF | Intermediate filaments |
| NLS | Nuclear localization signal/sequence |
| NPC | Nuclear pore complex |
| Cdk | Cyclin-Dependent Kinase |
| PKA | Protein Kinase A |
| PKC | Protein Kinase C |
| Gsk | Glycogen Synthase Kinase |
| ERK | Extracellular Signal-Regulated Kinase |
| MAPK/APK | Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase/Activated Protein Kinase |
| S/MAR | Scaffold/matrix attachment region |
| cAMP | Cyclic Adenosine Monophosphate |
| GFP | Green Fluorescent Protein |
| CNS | Central Nervous System |
| IMD | Immune deficiency |
| Top2 | Topoisomerase II |
| SRPK | Serine/Arginine Protein Kinase |
| LEM | LAP2-Emerin-MAN1 Domain Protein |
| MEF | Myocyte Enhancer Factor 2 |
| MYF | Myogenic Factor |
| DMD | Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy |
| TOR | Target of Rapamycin |
| Nrf | Nuclear Factor Erythroid |
| NOX | NADPH Oxidase |
| IFM | Indirect flight muscle |
| AMPK | Activated protein kinase |
| FOXO | Forkhead box O |
| NPS | Neuropeptide S |
| HSF | Heat Shock Factor |
| CMD | Congenital muscular dystrophy |
| TM | Transmembrane |
| TMEM | Transmembrane Protein |
| BAF | Barrier-to-Autointegration Factor |
| LAP | Lamina-associated polypeptide |
| MAN | Inner Nuclear Membrane Protein |
| LEMD1 | LEM Domain-Containing 1 |
| EMD | Emerin |
| ANKL | Ankyrin Repeat and LEM Domain-Containing |
| BOKS | Barrier-to-Autointegration Factor (BAF)-binding protein of KASH domain |
| OTE | Otefin |
| NES | Nuclear Export Signal |
| MSC | MAN1/Src1p/C-terminal motif |
| ANK | Ankyrin repeats |
| RM | RNA Recognition Motif |
| GIY-YIG | Endonuclease Domain (a conserved DNA-binding motif) |
| LBR | Lamin B Receptor |
| HEM | Hydrops-Ectopic calcification-Moth-eaten skeletal dysplasia |
| LBS | Lamin binding site |
| CHD | Chromodomain-Helicase-DNA-binding protein |
| ABS | Acting binding side |
| AMC | Arthrogryposis multiplex congenital |
| MCPHRb | MicrocephalyRetinoblastoma |
| GSSG | Glutathione Disulfide |
| GSH | Reduced glutathione |
| wt | Wild type |