Abstract
Secretory traffic became a topical field because many important cell regulators are plasma membrane proteins (transporters, channels, receptors), being thus key targets in biomedicine and drug discovery. Cystic fibrosis (CF), caused by defects in a single gene encoding the CF transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR), constitutes the most common of rare diseases and certainly a paradigmatic one.
Here we focus on five different approaches that allow biochemical and cellular characterization of CFTR from its co-translational insertion into the ER membrane to its delivery to the plasma membrane.
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Work supported by UID/MULTI/04046/2013 center grant (to BioISI) from FCT/MCTES/PIDDAC, Portugal. H.M.B. is recipient of SFRH/BPD/93017/2013 postdoctoral fellowship (FCT, Portugal) and P.M. is supported by grant IF/2012 (FCT, Portugal).
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Amaral, M.D., Farinha, C.M., Matos, P., Botelho, H.M. (2016). Investigating Alternative Transport of Integral Plasma Membrane Proteins from the ER to the Golgi: Lessons from the Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator (CFTR). In: Pompa, A., De Marchis, F. (eds) Unconventional Protein Secretion. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1459. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-3804-9_7
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