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SUBMITTER: Arora K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4081048 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Arora Kavisha K Moon Changsuk C Zhang Weiqiang W Yarlagadda Sunitha S Penmatsa Himabindu H Ren Aixia A Sinha Chandrima C Naren Anjaparavanda P AP
Biochemistry 20140619 25
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a recessive genetic disease caused by mutations in CFTR, a plasma-membrane-localized anion channel. The most common mutation in CFTR, deletion of phenylalanine at residue 508 (ΔF508), causes misfolding of CFTR resulting in little or no protein at the plasma membrane. The CFTR corrector VX-809 shows promise for treating CF patients homozygous for ΔF508. Here, we demonstrate the significance of protein-protein interactions in enhancing the stability of the ΔF508 CFTR mutant ...[more]