Journal
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-CELL PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 299, Issue 6, Pages C1222-C1233Publisher
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.00362.2010
Keywords
mucus expansion; mucus obstruction; mucovisicidosis; exocrine gland
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- National Institutes of Health [HL-084042]
- Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
- Cystic Fibrosis Research, Inc.
- Olmsted Trust
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Quinton PM. Role of epithelial HCO3- transport in mucin secretion: lessons from cystic fibrosis. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 299: C1222-C1233, 2010. First published October 6, 2010; doi:10.1152/ajpcell.00362.2010.-The invitation to present the 2010 Hans Ussing lecture for the Epithelial Transport Group of the American Physiological Society offered me a unique, special, and very surprising opportunity to join in saluting a man whom I met only once, but whose work was the basis, not only for my career, but also for finding the molecular defect in the inherited disease cystic fibrosis (CF). In this context, I will venture to make the tribute with a new explanation of why a mutation in a single gene that codes for an anion channel can cause devastation of multiple epithelial systems with pathogenic mucus. In so doing, I hope to raise awareness of a new role for that peculiar anion around which so much physiology revolves, HCO3-. I begin by introducing CF pathology as I question the name of the disease as well as the prevalent view of the basis of its pathology by considering: 1) mucus, 2) salt, and 3) HCO3-. I then present recent data showing that HCO3- is required for normal mucus discharge, and I will close with conjecture as to how HCO3- may support mucus discharge and why the failure to transport this electrolyte is pathogenic in CF.
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