Usherin, the defective protein in Usher syndrome type IIA, is likely to be a component of interstereocilia ankle links in the inner ear sensory cells

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 14, Issue 24, 2005, Pages 3921-3932

  Adato, Avital ^a   Lefèvre, Gaëlle ^a   Delprat, Benjamin ^a   Michel, Vincent ^a   Michalski, Nicolas ^a   Chardenoux, Sébastien ^a   Weil, Dominique ^a   El Amraoui, Aziz ^a   Petit, Christine ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

F ACTIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PDZ PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; USHERIN; WHIRLIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; CONGENITAL DEAFNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; HAIR CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; IN VITRO STUDY; INNER EAR; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RAT; RETINA; STEREOCILIUM; USHER SYNDROME;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CILIA; EAR, INNER; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; HAIR CELLS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; USHER SYNDROMES;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 29644441618     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddi416     Document Type: Article

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