CFTR

CFTR is a salt channel on lung and gut cells. A broken CFTR causes cystic fibrosis, a lung and digestion disease.

Fun fact

New CFTR medicines can fix the broken shape and help people breathe easier.

Words to know

channel
cell
mutation
gene

NGSS alignment

MS-LS3-1Structure & function of proteins
MS-LS1-3Body as a system

Structure

Rendered in FoldLens Junior from AlphaFold Database entry P13569. See the underlying prediction at alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/entry/P13569.

About this surface

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