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Department of Genetics, Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G1X8; and S.C. Johnson Medical Research Center, Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, Scottsdale, Arizona 85259
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5.3 Å. Permeability ratios also followed a lyotropic sequence, suggesting that permeability is dependent on ionic hydration energies. Site-directed mutagenesis of two adjacent threonines in TM6 to smaller, less polar alanines led to a significant (24%) increase in single channel conductance and elevated permeability to several large anions, suggesting that these residues do not strongly bind permeating anions, but may contribute to the narrowest part of the pore.
Key Words: pore size • channel selectivity • anion permeation • lyotropic sequence • cystic fibrosis
Abbreviations: CFTR, cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator
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; Riordan, 1993; Hanrahan et al., 1995). The preceding paper examined halide permeability ratios under biionic conditions and described the unique behavior of I–. In this paper, we examine permeation by polyatomic anions having different dimensions and use the permeability ratios obtained to estimate the functional diameter of the pore.
Mutagenesis studies of CFTR selectivity (Anderson et al., 1991; Tabcharani et al., 1997), conductance (Sheppard et al., 1993; Tabcharani et al., 1993; McDonough et al., 1994), multi-ion pore behavior (Tabcharani et al., 1993), voltage-dependent block (Tabcharani et al., 1993; McDonough et al., 1994; Linsdell and Hanrahan, 1996b), and susceptibility to hydrophilic sulfhydryl reagents after cysteine substitution mutagenesis (Cheung and Akabas, 1996) suggest that the sixth membrane spanning region of CFTR (TM6) lines the pore. All TM6 mutants that have been characterized at the single channel level have had conductances that are the same, or lower than, that of wild-type CFTR (Sheppard et al., 1993; Tabcharani et al., 1993; McDonough et al., 1994). Some of these low conductance mutations (R334W, R347P, and R347H) occur in cystic fibrosis patients and have been associated with relatively mild disease symptoms. During a preliminary study of channels bearing mutations of polar residues in TM6 that might disrupt hydrogen bonding, we identified a mutant that had significantly higher conductance than wild-type CFTR. This mutant, with two threonine-to-alanine substitutions near the middle of TM6, was also found to have elevated permeability to polyatomic anions, consistent with an increase in the caliber of the narrowest region of the pore. Preliminary reports of this work have appeared (Tabcharani and Hanrahan, 1993; Linsdell et al., 1996).
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; Chang et al., 1993; Tabcharani et al., 1997). The TM6 double mutant (TT338,339AA; see Fig. 4) was constructed by site-directed mutagenesis using the polymerase chain reaction with Vent polymerase (New England Biolabs, Inc., Mississauga, Ontario, Canada), as described previously (Tabcharani et al., 1993). A silent change was introduced in the original CFTR cDNA to create a Stu1 restriction endonuclease site at nucleotide 950. Mutagenesis was carried out using a fragment that extended from this Stu1 site to an Fsp1 site at nucleotide 1169. The manipulated portion of the construct was verified by sequencing with dideoxy chain termination and Sequenase (United States Biochemicals, Cleveland, OH). Cells were transfected and immunoreactive mutant CFTR protein was detected in multiple cell lines after selection in methotrexate as described previously (Tabcharani et al., 1991; Chang et al., 1993).
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). Permeation was studied under biionic conditions by replacing the chloride salts in the pipette or bath solutions with those of the appropriate anion. Bicarbonate permeation was studied under conditions of high pH 8.3 and 5% CO2 as described previously for the outwardly rectifying anion channel (Tabcharani et al., 1989). Under these conditions, the carbonic acid, bicarbonate, and carbonate concentrations would be 1.4, 147, and 1.4 mM, respectively.
Single Channel Record
Pipettes and recording equipment were as described previously (Tabcharani et al., 1997). The bath agar bridge had the same ionic composition as the pipette solution. Voltages have been corrected for liquid junction potentials measured at the agar bridge using a flowing 3-M KCl electrode as follows (mV): 1 NO3–, 3 formate, 5 acetate, 5 methane sulfonate, 6 ethane sulfonate, 6 pyruvate, 6 propanoate, 10 gluconate. Permeability ratios were calculated using the equation
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where Erev is the reversal potential and other terms have their usual meanings. The relationship between channel conductance and symmetrical Cl– activity for both wild type and TT338,339AA channels was fitted by a Michaelis-Menten–type hyperbolic function of the form
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is conductance, max the saturating conductance of the channel, Km the apparent affinity of the channel for Cl– ions, and (Cl–) the Cl– activity calculated using the Debye-Hückel theory.
To estimate pore size, the permeation pathway of CFTR was modeled as a cylinder permeated by cylindrical ions (e.g., Dwyer et al., 1980; Bormann et al., 1987; Cohen et al., 1992b). According to this model, ionic permeability is proportional to the ratio of the diameters of the permeating ion and the pore by an excluded volume effect (Dwyer et al., 1980). The permeability of an ion, relative to Cl–, is then given by
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where a is the diameter of the ion, d is the diameter of the pore, and k is a proportionality constant.
Mean values are presented as mean ± SEM. For graphical presentation of mean values, error bars represent ±SEM; where no error bars are shown, this is smaller than the size of the symbol. Experiments were performed at room temperature (22 ± 1°C) unless otherwise indicated.
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). Anions that appeared to be impermeant under the conditions used in this study were assigned permeability ratios <0.06. Table I summarizes the reversal potentials and permeability ratios obtained for external anions, and also the estimated minimum unhydrated dimensions of each ion used.
Permeability to Intracellular Anions
Fig. 3 shows i/V relationships obtained when different anions were present on the cytoplasmic side of the membrane. Permeability ratios calculated for cytoplasmic anions were somewhat higher than when the same anions were present extracellularly; for example, the mean Pformate/PCl ratios were 0.18 ± 0.03 and 0.25 ± 0.01 with external and internal formate, respectively (Tables I and II). Acetate displayed a similar asymmetry, with Pacetate/PCl being 0.09 ± 0.00 from the extracellular side and 0.19 ± 0.01 from the intracellular side. Nevertheless, the overall permeability sequence observed was the same regardless of the direction of the anion gradients (NO3– > Cl– > HCO3– > formate > acetate). The i/V relationships measured with internal pyruvate, propanoate, methane sulfonate, ethane sulfonate, or gluconate on the cytoplasmic side did not reverse (Fig. 3), indicating negligible permeability to these ions (PX/PCl < 0.06). Reversal potentials and permeability ratios for intracellular anions are summarized in Table II.
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; Yool and Schwarz, 1991; Cohen et al., 1992a, 1992b; Sansom, 1992; Villarroel and Sakmann, 1992; Heginbotham et al., 1994; McDonough et al., 1994). Mutation of serine 341, another potential hydrogen-bonding residue in CFTR TM6, to alanine causes pronounced rectification of the macroscopic i/V relationship and reduced sensitivity to block by diphen-ylamine-2-carboxylate (DPC; McDonough et al., 1994). By contrast, mutating threonines 338 and 339 individually to alanines had no effect on the shape of the i/V relationship or DPC block (McDonough et al., 1994). Fig. 5, A–C shows that Cl– currents carried by single TT338,339AA channels were consistently larger than those carried by wild-type channels. Wild-type channels had a linear current–voltage relationship over the range ±80 mV, with a mean slope conductance of 7.97 ± 0.10 pS (n = 6; Fig. 5 C), similar to values reported previously under similar conditions (Tabcharani et al., 1993; Tabcharani et al., 1997). The TT338,339AA mutant also had a linear i/V relationship over the same voltage range, but its conductance was 9.88 ± 0.26 pS (n = 8), significantly higher than that of the wild-type channel (P < 0.05, one-tailed t test; Fig. 5 C).
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max = 11.1 pS and Km = 45.9 mM for wild type, and max = 14.0 pS and Km = 52.9 mM for TT338,339AA. The fact that this equation fit the data well without correction for local changes in ion concentration suggests that fixed charges on the surface of the channel protein do not greatly influence conductance in wild-type or TT338,339AA channels (for review see Green and Andersen, 1991). The primary functional effect of the TT338,339AA mutation was to increase the saturating conductance of the channel by 26%. The Km may also be increased somewhat (15%); however, this would probably have little effect at 150 mM Cl–.
Permeability of the TT338,339AA Mutant to Different Anions
To assess whether the increase in conductance and possible decrease in Cl– affinity of TT338,339AA might be associated with a change in pore diameter, permeability of the mutant channel to a number of extracellular anions was tested under biionic conditions as described for wild-type channels (see above; Tabcharani et al., 1997). Mean single channel current–voltage relationships for TT338,339AA obtained with different external anions are shown in Fig. 6. As can be seen from Table I, all permeant anions tested had higher permeability ratios in TT338,339AA than in the wild-type channel. Moreover, two anions that were not measurably permeant in wild-type channels (propanoate and pyruvate) showed significant permeability in TT338,339AA. The small anion F–, which has a high hydration energy and may be unable to interact with "weak field strength" sites in the pore (see below), was not measurably permeant in the TT338,339AA mutant, as reported previously for the wild-type channel (Tabcharani et al., 1997).
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), then the increased permeability of the TT338,339AA channel to acetate, formate, propanoate, and pyruvate would suggest that this double mutation may widen the narrowest region. The pore of wild-type CFTR accommodates acetate (unhydrated molecular dimensions 3.99 x 5.18 x 5.47 Å; see Table I) but not the slightly larger ions propanoate (4.12 x 5.23 x 7.05 Å) or pyruvate (4.09 x 5.73 x 6.82 Å). Assuming that the narrowest dimensions of the pore are large enough to accommodate the two smaller dimensions of any (unhydrated) permeant anion, this constriction must have minimal dimensions of 3.99 x 5.18 Å and a cross-sectional area of at least 21 Å2. By contrast, the pore of TT338,339AA is permeable to both propanoate and pyruvate but not to methane sulfonate (5.08 x 5.43 x 5.54 Å), suggesting minimal dimensions of 4.12 x 5.73 Å and a cross-sectional area of at least 24 Å2 for the narrowest region. The relative permeability of the different extracellular anions studied as a function of their apparent diameters is shown in Fig. 7 A. The diameter of unhydrated ions is often expressed as the geometric mean of the three minimum dimensions of the ion (e.g., Dwyer et al., 1980; Cohen et al., 1992b). However, several of the anions studied here are roughly cylindrical in shape and their ability to pass through the CFTR channel may depend on the minimum cross-sectional dimensions of a cylinder that could contain the ion (McDonough et al., 1994; Cheung and Akabas, 1996). The largest dimension of the ion (i.e., the length of the cylinder) would therefore affect its permeability far less than the two smaller dimensions. We therefore took the geometric mean of the two smallest dimensions for each ion (Table I) as our estimate of ionic diameter in Fig. 7 A. Plotting the permeability ratios calculated for extracellular anions (Table I) against these apparent ionic diameters and fitting them with Eq. 3 gave d = 5.34 Å and k = 2.61 for the wild-type channel and d = 5.83 Å and k = 3.94 for TT338,339AA mutant, again consistent with a substantial increase in diameter of the TT338,339AA variant. These diameters would produce cross-sectional areas of 22 Å2 for wild type and 27 Å2 for TT338,339AA if the pores were cylindrical. Small anions (Cl–, F–, Br–, I–, NO3–), the permeability of which is dependent more on their hydration energies than their size (see below), were excluded from these fits.
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; Tabcharani et al., 1997), suggesting that hydration energies are mainly responsible for controlling anion permeability (Fig. 7 B). High iodide and thiocyanate permeabilities were reported previously (Tabcharani et al., 1992, 1993). Thus, in CFTR, ion–channel interactions may be relatively weak compared with ion–solvent interactions, indicating a weak field strength selectivity site (Wright and Diamond, 1977). The relationship between permeability and hydration energy is maintained in TT338, 339AA (Fig. 7 B), suggesting that this mutation does not strongly affect the selectivity filter of the channel. |
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, 1993; Bell and Quinton, 1992; Bajnath et al., 1993; Copello et al., 1993; Overholt et al., 1993; Poulsen et al., 1994; Kottra, 1995; Linsdell and Hanrahan, 1996a).
As with halide permeability (Tabcharani et al., 1997), the permeability sequence to polyatomic anions followed a lyotropic or (inverse) Hofmeister sequence (Fig. 7 B). This series is favored when cationic groups or dipoles in proteins attract anions to a region of structured water, such as that found near hydrophobic groups (Von Hippel and Schleich, 1969; Dani et al., 1983; Tabcharani et al., 1997). The same lyotropic sequence has been observed in GABAA and glycine-gated Cl– channels in spinal neurons (Bormann et al., 1987) and hippocampal neurons (Fatima-Shad and Barry, 1993), in a voltage–dependent Cl– channel in hippo-campal neurons (Franciolini and Nonner, 1987), and in the epithelial outwardly rectifying Cl– channel (Reinhardt et al., 1986; Halm and Frizzell, 1992). Although the physical basis of lyotropic anion selectivity has not yet been studied in Cl– channels using mutagenesis, it is likely that a positively charged amino acid and/or cationic dipole within the channel pore is the anion attracting group. As discussed in the companion papers (Tabcharani et al., 1997; Linsdell et al., 1997), one contributor in the CFTR pore may be arginine 347 in TM6, since mutations that remove positive charge at this position drastically reduce selectivity between Cl– and I– (Tabcharani et al., 1997), abolish voltage–dependent inhibition of Cl– currents by the lyotropic anion SCN– (Tabcharani et al., 1993), and reduce channel block by cytoplasmic disulfonic stilbenes (Linsdell and Hanrahan, 1996b).
Wild-type CFTR channels showed low permeability to formate and acetate ions, and were not measurably permeant to the larger anions propanoate, pyruvate, methane sulfonate, ethane sulfonate, and gluconate. However, these large anions may be able to permeate at rates that are too low to be resolved as single channel currents. Relatively large, hydrophilic sulfhydryl reagents (6 Å in diameter) are able to penetrate from the extracellular solution to interact covalently with engineered cysteine residues at the cytoplasmic end of TM6 (Cheung and Akabas, 1996). The irreversible nature of that reaction probably enables permeation by the cysteine reagent to be detected when the flux rates of similar compounds (e.g., ethane sulfonate) are too low to generate measurable current at the single channel level. The anionic channel blockers diphenylamine-2-carboxylate and flufenamic acid are also permeant in CFTR (McCarty et al., 1993).
The relationship between ion diameter and permeability in CFTR (Fig. 7 A) suggests a pore diameter of 5.3 Å and a cross-sectional area of 21–22 Å2. Other Cl– channel types have been estimated to have pore diameters between 5.2 and 6.4 Å (Bormann et al., 1987; Franciolini and Nonner, 1987; Halm and Frizzell, 1992; Fatima-Shad and Barry, 1993; Arreola et al., 1995). Our estimate of the pore diameter is likely to be a lower limit, since large anions may have permeabilities below our detection threshold (see above). However, our estimates for the pore diameter are less than the diameter of ATP (Table I), which has been reported to diffuse through CFTR channels at high rates (Reisin et al., 1994; Schwiebert et al., 1995), although this has not been observed in all laboratories (Reddy et al., 1996; Li et al., 1996; Grygorczyk et al., 1996). If CFTR can support ATP transport under certain conditions, it seems unlikely that this would involve ATP permeation through the pore.
The increased permeability of large anions in TT338,339AA (Table I) indicates an increase in the dimensions of the narrowest part of the pore in this mutant. We estimate the diameter of the mutated pore to be 5.8 Å, with a cross-sectional area of 24–27 Å2. One possible interpretation of these results is that threonine residues 338 and/or 339 might contribute to the narrowest part of the pore, either directly or via an allosteric effect on a constricted region that is physically located elsewhere. Threonine residues have previously been suggested to contribute to the narrowest region of the pore in cation-selective nicotinic acetylcholine receptor channels (Cohen et al., 1992a, 1992b; Villarroel and Sakmann, 1992). However, substituted cysteine accessibility mutagenesis experiments indicate that the R groups of these two threonine residues are not in contact with the aqueous lumen of the CFTR pore (Cheung and Akabas, 1996).
TT338,339AA had a larger saturating conductance than wild-type CFTR (Fig. 5), suggesting that conductance of the wild-type channel may be limited by the rate of Cl– flux through this narrow region. Conductance could be elevated due to a reduction in nonspecific frictional interactions between the permeating ion and the pore walls (although the smallest estimate of the narrowest part of the pore is still much larger than the diameter of an unhydrated Cl– ion, 3.62 Å). The i/V relationship of TT338,339AA, like wild type, was linear, suggesting anion binding is not strongly altered in this mutant. This agrees with the results of McDonough et al. (1994), who found that mutating each of these threonine residues individually to alanines did not affect the linearity of the macroscopic CFTR Cl– current expressed in Xenopus oocytes. In contrast, mutating serine 341 to alanine produced outward rectification of the i/V relationship, consistent with its proposed role as a binding site for permeating anions (McDonough et al., 1994). Subsequent cysteine mutagenesis also indicated that serine 341 lines the pore (Cheung and Akabas, 1996). The increased conductance of TT338,339AA is unlikely to be a nonspecific effect of mutations in TM6 since many mutations in this region have been studied, but none has previously been found to elevate conductance. Moreover, the fact that the selectivity sequence and channel gating were not affected in the mutant also argues against gross structural alterations, although these cannot be excluded. The altered apparent pore size and conductance of TT338,339AA are consistent with the proposed key role of TM6 in forming the CFTR pore (Anderson et al., 1991; Sheppard et al., 1993; Tabcharani et al., 1993, 1997; McDonough et al., 1994; Cheung and Akabas, 1996; Linsdell and Hanrahan, 1996b).
A CFTR variant with increased conductance might be useful in maximizing Cl– transport in gene or protein replacement therapy for cystic fibrosis, particularly where the efficiency of gene or protein delivery was low. The 24% increase in channel conductance seen in TT338,339AA might not be therapeutically significant and would also have to be weighed against the possibly deleterious increased permeability to large organic anions. Nevertheless, since it is the first CFTR mutation to increase channel conductance, it suggests that other mutations in this region may allow the development of therapeutically advantageous forms of CFTR.
The lyotropic sequence of permeability ratios is the same in both wild-type and TT338,339AA channels (I– > NO3– > Br– > Cl– > acetate > F–; Fig. 7 B). This suggests that the narrow region disrupted in the TT338,339AA mutant is not a major determinant of selectivity in CFTR, unlike voltage-gated Na+ (Lipkind and Fozzard, 1994) and K+ channels (Lipkind et al., 1995), where a selectivity filter has been proposed in the narrowest part of the pore. Nevertheless, permeability ratios for I–, NO3–, and Br– are all increased relative to the smaller Cl– ion. Thus, in wild-type channels, the narrow region may interact preferentially with Cl– compared with these other ions.
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This work was supported by the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CCFF), the Medical Research Council (MRC; Canada), and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. P. Linsdell is a CCFF postdoctoral fellow. J.W. Hanrahan is an MRC Scientist.
Submitted: 10 October 1996
Accepted: 11 July 1997
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G. Y Rychkov, M. Pusch, M. L Roberts, and A. H Bretag Interaction of hydrophobic anions with the rat skeletal muscle chloride channel ClC-1: effects on permeation and gating J. Physiol., February 1, 2001; 530(3): 379 - 393. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
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Z. Qu and H. C. Hartzell Anion Permeation in Ca2+-Activated Cl- Channels J. Gen. Physiol., December 1, 2000; 116(6): 825 - 844. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
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M. Bertog, D. J. Smith, A. Bielfeld-Ackermann, J. Bassett, D. J. P. Ferguson, C. Korbmacher, and A. Harris Ovine male genital duct epithelial cells differentiate in vitro and express functional CFTR and ENaC Am J Physiol Cell Physiol, May 1, 2000; 278(5): C885 - C894. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
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K A Lansdell, Z Cai, J F Kidd, and D N Sheppard Two mechanisms of genistein inhibition of cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator Cl- channels expressed in murine cell line J. Physiol., April 15, 2000; 524(2): 317 - 330. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
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M. H. Akabas Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator. STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF AN EPITHELIAL CHLORIDE CHANNEL J. Biol. Chem., February 11, 2000; 275(6): 3729 - 3732. [Full Text] [PDF]
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N. McCarty Permeation through the CFTR chloride channel J. Exp. Biol., January 7, 2000; 203(13): 1947 - 1962. [Abstract] [PDF]
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S. S. Smith, E. D. Steinle, M. E. Meyerhoff, and D. C. Dawson Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator: Physical Basis for Lyotropic Anion Selectivity Patterns J. Gen. Physiol., December 1, 1999; 114(6): 799 - 818. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
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C. R. Marino, V. Jeanes, W. F. Boron, and B. M. Schmitt Expression and distribution of the Na+-HCO-3 cotransporter in human pancreas Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol, August 1, 1999; 277(2): G487 - G494. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
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D. C. Devor, A. K. Singh, L. C. Lambert, A. DeLuca, R. A. Frizzell, and R. J. Bridges Bicarbonate and Chloride Secretion in Calu-3 Human Airway Epithelial Cells J. Gen. Physiol., May 1, 1999; 113(5): 743 - 760. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
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D. N. SHEPPARD and M. J. WELSH Structure and Function of the CFTR Chloride Channel Physiol Rev, January 1, 1999; 79(1): 23 - 45. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
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D. C. DAWSON, S. S. SMITH, and M. K. MANSOURA CFTR: Mechanism of Anion Conduction Physiol Rev, January 1, 1999; 79(1): 47 - 75. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
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B. Illek, H. Fischer, and T. E. Machen II. Regulation of CFTR by small molecules including HCO-3 Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol, December 1, 1998; 275(6): G1221 - G1226. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
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P. Linsdell, S.-X. Zheng, and J. W Hanrahan Non-pore lining amino acid side chains influence anion selectivity of the human CFTR Cl- channel expressed in mammalian cell lines J. Physiol., October 1, 1998; 512(1): 1 - 16. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
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G.Y. Rychkov, M. Pusch, M.L. Roberts, T.J. Jentsch, and A.H. Bretag Permeation and Block of the Skeletal Muscle Chloride Channel, ClC-1, by Foreign Anions J. Gen. Physiol., May 1, 1998; 111(5): 653 - 665. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
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P. Linsdell and J. W. Hanrahan Adenosine Triphosphate-dependent Asymmetry of Anion Permeation in the Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator Chloride Channel J. Gen. Physiol., April 1, 1998; 111(4): 601 - 614. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
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D. C. Dawson and S. S. Smith Commentary Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator: Permeant Ions Find the Pore J. Gen. Physiol., October 1, 1997; 110(4): 337 - 339. [Full Text] [PDF]
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J. A. Tabcharani, P. Linsdell, and J. W. Hanrahan Halide Permeation in Wild-Type and Mutant Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator Chloride Channels J. Gen. Physiol., October 1, 1997; 110(4): 341 - 354. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
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P. Linsdell, J. A. Tabcharani, and J. W. Hanrahan Multi-Ion Mechanism for Ion Permeation and Block in the Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator Chloride Channel J. Gen. Physiol., October 1, 1997; 110(4): 365 - 377. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
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