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CFTR mutations altering CFTR fragmentation

  • Kendra Tosoni
  • , Michelle Stobbart
  • , Diane M Cassidy
  • , Andrea Venerando
  • , Mario A Pagano
  • , Simao Luz
  • , Margarida D Amaral
  • , Karl Kunzelmann
  • , Lorenzo A Pinna
  • , Carlos Miguel Farinha
  • , Anil Mehta (Lead / Corresponding author)

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    Abstract

    Most cystic fibrosis (CF), results from deletion of a phenylalanine (F508) in the CF transmembrane-conductance regulator (CFTR, ABCC7) which causes ER-degradation of the mutant. Using stably CFTR-expressing BHK cell lines, we demonstrate that wild type- and F508delCFTR are cleaved into differently sized, N- and C-terminal bearing fragments, with each hemi-CFTR carrying its nearest nucleotide binding domain (NBD), reflecting differential cleavage through the central CFTR R-domain. Similar NBD1-bearing fragments are present in the natively expressing HBE epithelial cell line. We also observe multiple smaller fragments of different sizes in BHK cells, particularly after F508del-mutation (ladder pattern). Trapping wild type CFTR in the ER did not generate a F508del fragmentation fingerprint. Fragments change their size/pattern again post mutation at sites involved in CFTR's in vitro interaction with the pleiotropic protein kinase CK2 (S511A in NBD1). F508del- and S511A- mutation generate different fragmentation fingerprints that are each unlike wild type; yet both mutants generate a new N-terminal-bearing CFTR fragments that are not observed with other CK2-related mutations (S511D, S422A/D, T1471A/D). We conclude that F508delCFTR is not degraded completely and there exists a relationship between CFTR's fragmentation fingerprint and the CFTR sequence through putative CK2-interactive sites that lie near F508.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)295-305
    Number of pages11
    JournalBiochemical Journal
    Volume449
    Issue number1
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2013

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