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Towards a rational combination therapy of cystic fibrosis: How cystamine restores the stability of mutant CFTR.
Autophagy - 1 Sept 2013
Villella Valeria R, Esposito Speranza, Maiuri Maria Chiara, Raia Valeria, Kroemer Guido, Maiuri Luigi
Abstract excerpt
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is most frequently due to homozygous ΔF508-CFTR mutation. The ΔF508-CFTR protein is unstable in the plasma membrane (PM), even if it is rescued by pharmacological agents that prevent its intracellular retention and degradation. Restoring defective autophagy in CF airways by proteostasis regulators (such as cystamine and its reduced form, cysteamine) can rescue and stabilize ΔF508-CFTR at the...
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