Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator Has an Altered Structure When Its Maturation Is Inhibited<sup>1</sup>
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Inefficient maturation and trafficking to the cell surface of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) is the primary cause of cystic fibrosis. CFTR protein that fails to mature accumulates as an immature core-glycosylated protein and is rapidly degraded. To determine how the structures of mature and immature CFTR are different, we compared the properties of CFTR that had been expressed in the presence or absence of the proteasome inhibitor, MG-132 (carbobenzoxy-L-leucyl-L-leucyl-L-leucinal). Transient expression of wild-type CFTR in the presence of submicromolar concentrations of MG-132 blocks maturation of the protein. We found that expression of CFTR in the presence of MG-132 trapped the protein in a trypsin-sensitive conformation. In addition, the structure of the carboxyl-terminus of immature and mature CFTR differed as histidine-tagged mature CFTR was preferentially recovered by metal-chelate chromatography. No chloride channel activity was detected when membranes containing immature CFTR were fused with planar lipid bilayers. These results show that expression of CFTR in the presence of MG-132 traps the protein in an altered conformation that may be inactive.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".