Identification and regulation of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator-generated chloride channel.

H A Berger; M P Anderson; R J Gregory; S Thompson; P W Howard; R A Maurer; R Mulligan; A E Smith; M J Welsh

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Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City 52242.

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Published in Volume 88, Issue 4 on October 1, 1991
J Clin Invest. 1991;88(4):1422–1431. https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI115450.
© 1991 The American Society for Clinical Investigation

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Cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) generates cAMP-regulated Cl- channels; mutations in CFTR cause defective Cl- channel function in cystic fibrosis epithelia. We used the patch-clamp technique to determine the single channel properties of Cl- channels in cell expressing recombinant CFTR. In cell-attached patches, an increase in cellular cAMP reversibly activated low conductance Cl- channels. cAMP-dependent regulation is due to phosphorylation, because the catalytic subunit of cAMP-dependent protein kinase plus ATP reversibly activated the channel in excised, cell-free patches of membrane. In symmetrical Cl- solutions, the channel had a channel conductance of 10.4 +/- 0.2 (n = 7) pS and a linear current-voltage relation. The channel was more permeable to Cl- than to I- and showed no appreciable time-dependent voltage effects. These biophysical properties are consistent with macroscopic studies of Cl- channels in single cells expressing CFTR and in the apical membrane of secretory epithelia. Identification of the single channel characteristics of CFTR-generated channels allows further studies of their regulation and the mechanism of ion permeation.

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Identification and regulation of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator-generated chloride channel.

H A Berger, M P Anderson, R J Gregory, S Thompson, P W Howard, R A Maurer, R Mulligan, A E Smith, and M J Welsh

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