The future of cystic fibrosis care: a global perspective

SC Bell, MA Mall, H Gutierrez, M Macek… - The Lancet …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Executive summary The past six decades have seen remarkable improvements in health
outcomes for people with cystic fibrosis, which was once a fatal disease of infants and young …

CFTR modulators: the changing face of cystic fibrosis in the era of precision medicine

M Lopes-Pacheco - Frontiers in pharmacology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a lethal inherited disease caused by mutations in the CF
transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene, which result in impairment of CFTR …

Engineering lipid nanoparticles for enhanced intracellular delivery of mRNA through inhalation

J Kim, A Jozic, Y Lin, Y Eygeris, E Bloom, X Tan… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Despite lipid nanoparticles'(LNPs) success in the effective and safe delivery of mRNA
vaccines, an inhalation-based mRNA therapy for lung diseases remains challenging. LNPs …

Triple Therapy for Cystic Fibrosis Phe508del–Gating and –Residual Function Genotypes

PJ Barry, MA Mall, A Álvarez, C Colombo… - … England Journal of …, 2021 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Elexacaftor–tezacaftor–ivacaftor is a small-molecule cystic fibrosis
transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) modulator regimen shown to be efficacious …

Cystic fibrosis in the year 2020: A disease with a new face

K De Boeck - Acta paediatrica, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The autosomal recessive disease cystic fibrosis (CF) was once untreatable and deadly in
childhood, but now most patients survive to adulthood. Many countries have instituted CF …

VX-659–tezacaftor–ivacaftor in patients with cystic fibrosis and one or two Phe508del alleles

JC Davies, SM Moskowitz, C Brown… - New england journal …, 2018 - Mass Medical Soc
Background The next-generation cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator
(CFTR) corrector VX-659, in triple combination with tezacaftor and ivacaftor (VX-659 …

CFTR protein: not just a chloride channel?

LS Hanssens, J Duchateau, GJ Casimir - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a recessive genetic disease caused by mutations in a gene encoding
a protein called Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator (CFTR). The CFTR …

[PDF][PDF] A review of Trikafta: triple cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) modulator therapy

A Zaher, J ElSaygh, D Elsori, H ElSaygh, A Sanni… - Cureus, 2021 - cureus.com
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a potentially fatal genetic disease that causes serious lung damage.
With time, researchers have a more complete understanding of the molecular-biological …

Folding and misfolding of human membrane proteins in health and disease: from single molecules to cellular proteostasis

JT Marinko, H Huang, WD Penn, JA Capra… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Advances over the past 25 years have revealed much about how the structural properties of
membranes and associated proteins are linked to the thermodynamics and kinetics of …

Structure, gating, and regulation of the CFTR anion channel

L Csanády, P Vergani, DC Gadsby - Physiological reviews, 2019 - journals.physiology.org
The cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) belongs to the ATP
binding cassette (ABC) transporter superfamily but functions as an anion channel crucial for …