To clarify whether CFTR is a molecular target of intestinal fluid secretion caused by the anthraquinone compounds from laxative herbal plants. In the present study, we determined the potentiating ...

Scientific experiments examining what happens to the faulty channel protein that causes cystic fibrosis during inflammation have yielded unexpected and exciting results. The study, conducted by Sara ...

The regulatory (R) region of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) is intrinsically disordered and must be phosphorylated at multiple sites for full CFTR channel activity, ...

A number of experimental techniques that involve measurements in engineered CF cell lines (available through the Center’s Gene Expression Core) and tissues of CF animal models (available through the ...

The cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator has been studied for years but the new efforts have yielded important insights. Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and ...

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and Rockefeller University have combined their expertise to gain a better understanding of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator ...

Cystic fibrosis is caused by an inherited mutation in the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene. Due to this mutation, the CFTR protein doesn't embed in cell membranes to ...

Fluorescence microscope image of cells in the lung’s blood vessels. The study has shown for the first time that these cells possess a CFTR chloride channel (green), and that lung inflammation-induced ...

The oldest known ortholog of the ion channel that is defective in patients with cystic fibrosis arose approximately 450 million years ago in the sea lamprey, researchers report. Many differences ...

Care for patients with cystic fibrosis has undergone transformative changes over the past decade and serves as an example of how an understanding of the functional consequences of a genetic disease ...