A Weak Point (IMAGE)

Rockefeller University

A Weak Point

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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).

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Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Biophysics at The Rockefeller University/Cell

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