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Timing of CFTR pore opening and structure of its transition state.
Cell - 22 Oct 2015
Sorum Ben, Czégé Dávid, Csanády László
Abstract excerpt
In CFTR, the chloride ion channel mutated in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients, pore opening is coupled to ATP-binding-induced dimerization of two cytosolic nucleotide binding domains (NBDs) and closure to dimer disruption following ATP hydrolysis. CFTR opening rate, unusually slow because of its high-energy transition state, is further slowed by CF mutation ΔF508. Here, we exploit equilibrium gating of...
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