TY - JOUR
T1 - Side chain and backbone contributions of Phe508 to CFTR folding
AU - Thibodeau, Patrick H.
AU - Brautigam, Chad A.
AU - Machius, Mischa
AU - Thomas, Philip J.
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank H. Lewis and M. Kearins for helpful advice regarding production of the two NBD1 crystal forms and members of the Thomas lab and the Structural Biology Lab for helpful suggestions and constructive criticism. This work was supported by grants from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) (DK49835), the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (THOMAS01GO) and Welch Foundation (I-1284) to P.J.T. and by a position on the NIH Training Grant, Mechanisms of Drug Action and Disposition (GM07062), awarded to P.H.T.
PY - 2005/1
Y1 - 2005/1
N2 - Mutations in the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR), an integral membrane protein, cause cystic fibrosis (CF). The most common CF-causing mutant, deletion of Phe508, fails to properly fold. To elucidate the role Phe508 plays in the folding of CFTR, missense mutations at this position were generated. Only one missense mutation had a pronounced effect on the stability and folding of the isolated domain in vitro. In contrast, many substitutions, including those of charged and bulky residues, disrupted folding of full-length CFTR in cells. Structures of two mutant nucleotide-binding domains (NBDs) reveal only local alterations of the surface near position 508. These results suggest that the peptide backbone plays a role in the proper folding of the domain, whereas the side chain plays a role in defining a surface of NBD1 that potentially interacts with other domains during the maturation of intact CFTR.
AB - Mutations in the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR), an integral membrane protein, cause cystic fibrosis (CF). The most common CF-causing mutant, deletion of Phe508, fails to properly fold. To elucidate the role Phe508 plays in the folding of CFTR, missense mutations at this position were generated. Only one missense mutation had a pronounced effect on the stability and folding of the isolated domain in vitro. In contrast, many substitutions, including those of charged and bulky residues, disrupted folding of full-length CFTR in cells. Structures of two mutant nucleotide-binding domains (NBDs) reveal only local alterations of the surface near position 508. These results suggest that the peptide backbone plays a role in the proper folding of the domain, whereas the side chain plays a role in defining a surface of NBD1 that potentially interacts with other domains during the maturation of intact CFTR.
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U2 - 10.1038/nsmb881
DO - 10.1038/nsmb881
M3 - Article
C2 - 15619636
AN - SCOPUS:11444265307
SN - 1545-9993
VL - 12
SP - 10
EP - 16
JO - Nature Structural and Molecular Biology
JF - Nature Structural and Molecular Biology
IS - 1
ER -