Cystic fibrosis: a mucosal immunodeficiency syndrome

TS Cohen, A Prince - Nature medicine, 2012 - nature.com
Cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) functions as a channel that
regulates the transport of ions and the movement of water across the epithelial barrier …

Lack of Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator in CD3+ Lymphocytes Leads to Aberrant Cytokine Secretion and Hyperinflammatory Adaptive …

C Mueller, SA Braag, A Keeler, C Hodges… - American journal of …, 2011 - atsjournals.org
Cystic fibrosis (CF), the most common fatal monogenic disease in the United States, results
from mutations in CF transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR), a chloride channel …

Small-molecule ion channels increase host defences in cystic fibrosis airway epithelia

KA Muraglia, RS Chorghade, BR Kim, XX Tang… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Loss-of-function mutations in the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator
(CFTR) compromise epithelial HCO3− and Cl− secretion, reduce airway surface liquid pH …

Lung disease in the cystic fibrosis mouse exposed to bacterial pathogens

DJ Davidson, JR Dorin, G McLachlan, V Ranaldi… - Nature …, 1995 - nature.com
Lung disease is the major cause of death in cystic fibrosis (CF), but there is no evidence for
overt lung involvement at birth. We show here that the same is true for the gene targeted cftr …

Protection against bronchial asthma by CFTR ΔF508 mutation: A heterozygote advantage in cystic fibrosis

SA Schroeder, DM Gaughan, M Swift - Nature medicine, 1995 - nature.com
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a multisystem autosomal recessive disorder caused by mutations of
the cystic fibrosis transmembrane regulator (CFTR), a protein that regulates cyclic-AMP …

Role of mutant CFTR in hypersusceptibility of cystic fibrosis patients to lung infections

GB Pier, M Grout, TS Zaidi, JC Olsen, LG Johnson… - Science, 1996 - science.org
Cystic fibrosis (CF) patients are hypersusceptible to chronic Pseudomonas aeruginosa lung
infections. Cultured human airway epithelial cells expressing the ΔF508 allele of the cystic …

Immune responses in cystic fibrosis: are they intrinsically defective?

D Ratner, C Mueller - American journal of respiratory cell and …, 2012 - atsjournals.org
Cystic fibrosis (CF), the most common lethal single-gene disorder affecting Northern
Europeans and North Americans, is caused by mutations in the cystic fibrosis …

Lung disease in mice with cystic fibrosis.

G Kent, R Iles, CE Bear, LJ Huan… - The Journal of …, 1997 - Am Soc Clin Investig
The leading cause of mortality and morbidity in humans with cystic fibrosis is lung disease.
Advances in our understanding of the pathogenesis of the lung disease of cystic fibrosis, as …

Calcium-pump inhibitors induce functional surface expression of ΔF508-CFTR protein in cystic fibrosis epithelial cells

ME Egan, J Glöckner-Pagel, CA Ambrose, PA Cahill… - Nature medicine, 2002 - nature.com
The most common mutation in cystic fibrosis, ΔF508, results in a cystic fibrosis
transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) protein that is retained in the endoplasmic …

Suppression of a CFTR premature stop mutation in a bronchial epithelial cell line

DM Bedwell, A Kaenjak, DJ Benos, Z Bebok… - Nature medicine, 1997 - nature.com
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is caused by mutations in the CF transmembrane conductance regulator
(CFTR) protein1. While 70% of CF chromosomes carry a deletion of the phenylalanine …