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Thermodynamics of CFTR channel gating: a spreading conformational change initiates an irreversible gating cycle.
The Journal of general physiology - 1 Nov 2006
Csanády László, Nairn Angus C, Gadsby David C
Abstract excerpt
CFTR is the only ABC (ATP-binding cassette) ATPase known to be an ion channel. Studies of CFTR channel function, feasible with single-molecule resolution, therefore provide a unique glimpse of ABC transporter mechanism. CFTR channel opening and closing (after regulatory-domain phosphorylation) follows an irreversible cycle, driven by ATP binding/hydrolysis at the nucleotide-binding domains (NBD1, NBD2). Recent...
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