The future of cystic fibrosis care: a global perspective

SC Bell, MA Mall, H Gutierrez, M Macek… - The Lancet …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Executive summary The past six decades have seen remarkable improvements in health
outcomes for people with cystic fibrosis, which was once a fatal disease of infants and young …

[HTML][HTML] CFTR modulators: the changing face of cystic fibrosis in the era of precision medicine

M Lopes-Pacheco - Frontiers in pharmacology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a lethal inherited disease caused by mutations in the CF
transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene, which result in impairment of CFTR …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanism of CFTR correction by type I folding correctors

K Fiedorczuk, J Chen - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Small molecule chaperones have been exploited as therapeutics for the hundreds of
diseases caused by protein misfolding. The most successful examples are the CFTR …

A functional CFTR assay using primary cystic fibrosis intestinal organoids

JF Dekkers, CL Wiegerinck, HR De Jonge… - Nature medicine, 2013 - nature.com
We recently established conditions allowing for long-term expansion of epithelial organoids
from intestine, recapitulating essential features of the in vivo tissue architecture. Here we …

Folding and misfolding of human membrane proteins in health and disease: from single molecules to cellular proteostasis

JT Marinko, H Huang, WD Penn, JA Capra… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Advances over the past 25 years have revealed much about how the structural properties of
membranes and associated proteins are linked to the thermodynamics and kinetics of …

Small-molecule modulation of protein homeostasis

GM Burslem, CM Crews - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Control of protein levels by nucleic-acid-based technologies has proven to be a useful
research tool but lacks the advantages of small molecules with respect to cell permeability …

Correction of the F508del-CFTR protein processing defect in vitro by the investigational drug VX-809

F Van Goor, S Hadida… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is caused by mutations in the CF transmembrane conductance regulator
(CFTR) gene that impair the function of CFTR, an epithelial chloride channel required for …

Cystic fibrosis: emergence of highly effective targeted therapeutics and potential clinical implications

MA Mall, N Mayer-Hamblett… - American journal of …, 2020 - atsjournals.org
Cystic fibrosis (CF) remains the most common life-shortening hereditary disease in white
populations, with high morbidity and mortality related to chronic airway mucus obstruction …

Rescue of CF airway epithelial cell function in vitro by a CFTR potentiator, VX-770

F Van Goor, S Hadida… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a fatal genetic disease caused by mutations in the gene encoding the
CF transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR), a protein kinase A (PKA)-activated …

[HTML][HTML] Folding correctors can restore CFTR posttranslational folding landscape by allosteric domain–domain coupling

N Soya, H Xu, A Roldan, Z Yang, H Ye, F Jiang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The folding/misfolding and pharmacological rescue of multidomain ATP-binding cassette
(ABC) C-subfamily transporters, essential for organismal health, remain incompletely …