title: The gating of the CFTR channel.
abstract: Cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) is an anion channel expressed in the apical membrane of epithelia. Mutations in the CFTR gene are the cause of cystsic fibrosis. CFTR is the only ABC-protein that constitutes an ion channel pore forming subunit. CFTR gating is regulated in complex manner as phosphorylation is mandatory for channel activity and gating is directly regulated by binding of ATP to specific intracellular sites on the CFTR protein. This review covers our current understanding on the gating mechanism in CFTR and illustrates the relevance of alteration of these mechanisms in the onset of cystic fibrosis.
authors.affiliation: Istituto di Biofisica, CNR. Via De Marini, 6, 16149, Genoa, Italy. oscar.moran@cnr.it.
authors.forename: Oscar
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Moran
mesh_terms: D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate / Q000378:metabolism*; D000818:Animals; D003550:Cystic Fibrosis / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D019005:Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D006868:Hydrolysis; D015640:Ion Channel Gating; D009154:Mutation; D010766:Phosphorylation; D000072417:Protein Domains
chemical_list: D019005:Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator; D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate
keywords: ATP binding and hydrolysis; Cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR); Gating; Nucleotide-binding domain; Phosphorylation