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Functional Reconstitution and Channel Activity Measurements of Purified Wildtype and Mutant CFTR Protein
Published on: March 9, 2015
Dysfunction of CFTR bearing the delta F508 mutation
M J Welsh1, G M Denning, L S Ostedgaard
1Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City 52242.
Abstract:
The cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) is mutated in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF). The most common CF-associated mutation is deletion of phenylalanine at residue 508, CFTR delta F508. When expressed in heterologous cells, CFTR bearing the delta F508 mutation fails to progress through the normal biosynthetic pathway and fails to traffic to the plasma membrane. As a result, CFTR delta F508 is mislocalized and is not present in the apical membrane of primary cultures of airway epithelia. Consequently, the apical membrane of CF airway epithelia is Cl- -impermeable, a defect that probably contributes to the pathogenesis of the disease.
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