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Thermal unfolding studies show the disease causing F508del mutation in CFTR thermodynamically destabilizes nucleotide-binding domain 1.
Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society - 1 Oct 2010
Protasevich Irina, Yang Zhengrong, Wang Chi, Atwell Shane, Zhao Xun, Emtage Spencer, Wetmore Diana, Hunt John F, Brouillette Christie G
Abstract excerpt
Misfolding and degradation of CFTR is the cause of disease in patients with the most prevalent CFTR mutation, an in-frame deletion of phenylalanine (F508del), located in the first nucleotide-binding domain of human CFTR (hNBD1). Studies of (F508del)CFTR cellular folding suggest that both intra- and inter-domain folding is impaired. (F508del)CFTR is a temperature-sensitive mutant, that is, lowering growth...
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