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The vast majority of cases of cystic Þbrosis are the result of a single amino acid deletion (DF508) in the sequence of CFTR. The result of this deletion is that the DF-CFTR misfolds and does not obtain its normal residence in the plasma membrane of cells, but instead is proteolyzed. The F508-containing Þrst nucleotide binding domain (NBD1) can be expressed in E. coli, puriÞed under denaturing conditions, and folded in vitro to a conformation that binds nucleotide. The in vitro
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