Prestin, a new type of motor protein

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 104-111

  Dallos, Peter ^a   Fakler, Bernd ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANION; MOLECULAR MOTOR; PRESTIN; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANION TRANSPORT PROTEIN; SLC26A5 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ANION TRANSPORT; COCHLEA; CORTI ORGAN; CYTOLOGY; CYTOPLASM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HAIR CELL; HEARING; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; REVIEW; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; ANION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; BIOMECHANICS; HAIR CELLS, OUTER; HEARING; HUMANS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; PROTEINS;

EID: 0036481993     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm730     Document Type: Review

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