Structure, gating, and regulation of the CFTR anion channel

L Csanády, P Vergani, DC Gadsby - Physiological reviews, 2019 - journals.physiology.org
The cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) belongs to the ATP
binding cassette (ABC) transporter superfamily but functions as an anion channel crucial for …

The ABC protein turned chloride channel whose failure causes cystic fibrosis

DC Gadsby, P Vergani, L Csanády - Nature, 2006 - nature.com
CFTR chloride channels are encoded by the gene mutated in patients with cystic fibrosis.
These channels belong to the superfamily of ABC transporter ATPases. ATP-driven …

[HTML][HTML] Atomic structure of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator

Z Zhang, J Chen - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
The cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) is an anion channel
evolved from the ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporter family. In this study, we determined …

[HTML][HTML] Structural biology of bacterial iron uptake

KD Krewulak, HJ Vogel - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) …, 2008 - Elsevier
To fulfill their nutritional requirement for iron, bacteria utilize various iron sources which
include the host proteins transferrin and lactoferrin, heme, and low molecular weight iron …

CFTR function and prospects for therapy

JR Riordan - Annu. Rev. Biochem., 2008 - annualreviews.org
Mutations in the gene coding for the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator
(CFTR) epithelial anion channel cause cystic fibrosis (CF). The multidomain integral …

Hsp90 cochaperone Aha1 downregulation rescues misfolding of CFTR in cystic fibrosis

X Wang, J Venable, P LaPointe, DM Hutt, AV Koulov… - Cell, 2006 - cell.com
The pathways that distinguish transport of folded and misfolded cargo through the exocytic
(secretory) pathway of eukaryotic cells remain unknown. Using proteomics to assess global …

[HTML][HTML] Requirements for efficient correction of ΔF508 CFTR revealed by analyses of evolved sequences

JL Mendoza, A Schmidt, Q Li, E Nuvaga, T Barrett… - Cell, 2012 - cell.com
Misfolding of ΔF508 cystic fibrosis (CF) transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR)
underlies pathology in most CF patients. F508 resides in the first nucleotide-binding domain …

Crystal structure of a heterodimeric ABC transporter in its inward-facing conformation

M Hohl, C Briand, MG Grütter, MA Seeger - Nature structural & …, 2012 - nature.com
ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters shuttle a wide variety of molecules across cell
membranes by alternating between inward-and outward-facing conformations, harnessing …

The ΔF508 cystic fibrosis mutation impairs domain-domain interactions and arrests post-translational folding of CFTR

K Du, M Sharma, GL Lukacs - Nature structural & molecular biology, 2005 - nature.com
Misfolding accounts for the endoplasmic reticulum–associated degradation of mutant cystic
fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulators (CFTRs), including deletion of Phe508 …

Phenylalanine-508 mediates a cytoplasmic–membrane domain contact in the CFTR 3D structure crucial to assembly and channel function

AWR Serohijos, T Hegedűs… - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - National Acad Sciences
Deletion of phenylalanine-508 (Phe-508) from the N-terminal nucleotide-binding domain
(NBD1) of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR), a member of the …