The mechanotransduction machinery of hair cells

Science Signaling

Volumn 2, Issue 85, 2009, Pages

  Grillet, Nicolas ^a   Kazmierczak, Piotr ^a   Xiong, Wei ^a   Schwander, Martin ^a   Reynolds, Anna ^a   Sakaguchi, Hirofumi ^b   Tokita, Joshua ^b   Kachar, Bechara ^b   Müller, Ulrich ^a  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DEAFNESS AND OTHER COMMUNICATION DISORDERS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMODIMER; MEPROBAMATE; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; UVOMORULIN; CADHERIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; CDH23 PROTEIN, MOUSE; PCDH15 PROTEIN, MOUSE; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; USH1C PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ADAPTATION; APICAL MEMBRANE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHANNEL GATING; COMPLEX FORMATION; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC SCREENING; HAIR CELL; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOUND DETECTION; STEREOCILIUM; USHER SYNDROME; ANIMAL; GENETICS; HEARING; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MECHANORECEPTOR; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; TOUCH; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; CADHERINS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CARRIER PROTEINS; HAIR CELLS, AUDITORY; HEARING; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; ION CHANNEL GATING; MECHANORECEPTORS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, NEUROLOGIC MUTANTS; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; TOUCH;

EID: 70449717518     PISSN: 19450877     EISSN: 19379145     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/scisignal.285pt5     Document Type: Review

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