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HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS
卷 25, 期 13, 页码 2672-2680出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddw126
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- National Institute of Health [5P30EY019007, R01EY018213, R01EY024698, R21AG050437]
- National Cancer Institute Core [5P30CA013696]
- Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) Physician-Scientist Award
- RPB, New York, NY, USA
- Tistou and Charlotte Kerstan Foundation
- Schneeweiss Stem Cell Fund
- New York State [C029572]
- Foundation Fighting Blindness New York Regional Research Center Grant [C-NY05-0705-0312]
- Joel Hoffman Fund
- Professor Gertrude Rothschild Stem Cell Foundation
- Gebroe Family Foundation
- National Institutes of Health [K08EY020530, R01EY016822, T32GM007337]
- Doris Duke Charitable Foundation [2013103]
- RPB, New York, NY
Bestrophin1 (BEST1) is expressed in human retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) and mutations in the BEST1 gene commonly cause retinal dysfunction and macular degeneration. BEST1 is presumed to assemble into a calcium-activated chloride channel and be involved in chloride transport but there is no direct evidence in live human RPE cells to support this idea. To test whether BEST1 functions as a chloride channel in living tissue, BEST1-mutant RPE (R218H, L234P, A243T) were generated from patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cells and compared with wild-type RPE in a retinal environment, using a biosensor that visualizes calcium-induced chloride ion flux in the cell. Calcium stimulation elicited chloride ion export in normal RPE but not in RPE derived from three patients with BEST1 mutations. These data, along with three-dimensional modeling, provide evidence that BEST1 assembles into a key calcium-sensing chloride channel in human RPE.
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