Nature Communications (Jun 2019)

Domain-interface dynamics of CFTR revealed by stabilizing nanobodies

  • Maud Sigoillot,
  • Marie Overtus,
  • Magdalena Grodecka,
  • Daniel Scholl,
  • Abel Garcia-Pino,
  • Toon Laeremans,
  • Lihua He,
  • Els Pardon,
  • Ellen Hildebrandt,
  • Ina Urbatsch,
  • Jan Steyaert,
  • John R. Riordan,
  • Cedric Govaerts

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10714-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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The leading cause of cystic fibrosis is the deletion of phenylalanine 508 (F508del) in the first nucleotide-binding domain (NBD1) of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR). Here authors we develop nanobodies targeting NBD1 of human CFTR and demonstrate their ability to stabilize both isolated NBD1 and full-length protein.