When the researchers plotted the locations of mutations (spheres) within the cystic fibrosis protein, they found that many are clustered at a vulnerable joint (lower right). Credit: Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Biophysics at The Rockefeller University/Cell Rockefeller scientists have created the first three-dimensional map of the protein responsible for cystic fibrosis, an inheritedContinue reading “First structural map of cystic fibrosis protein sheds light on how mutations cause disease”