The cystic fibrosis gene and its product CFTR.

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Cystic fibrosis is the commonest, fatal, inherited disease of caucasian populations occurring with a frequency of 1 in 2000 live births. The CF gene spans about 230 kb of genomic DNA and encodes a protein of 1480 amino acids named the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR). The primary sequence predicts that CFTR is an ABC type protein with twelve transmembrane spans, two nucleotide binding...

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