The transmembrane inner ear (Tmie) protein is essential for normal hearing and balance in the zebrafish

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 50, 2009, Pages 21347-21352

  Gleason, Michelle R ^a   Nagiel, Aaron ^a   Jamet, Sophie ^b,c   Vologodskaia, Maria ^a   López Schier, Hernán ^a,b   Hudspeth, A J ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTRE FOR GENOMIC REGULATION CRG   (Spain)

^c Groupe Enzymologie Moléculaire et Fonctionnelle   (France)

Author keywords

Auditory system; Hair cell; Lateral line; Mechanoelectrical transduction; Vestibular system

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL STRUCTURE; CLONING; COCHLEA POTENTIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; GENE MUTATION; HAIR CELL; HEARING; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; INNER EAR; LARVA; LYSOSOME; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; MUTANT; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEREOCILIUM; VESTIBULAR EVOKED POTENTIAL; VIBRATION SENSE; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; DEAFNESS; EAR, INNER; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; HAIR CELLS, AUDITORY; HEARING; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; POSTURAL BALANCE; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

DANIO RERIO; MAMMALIA;

EID: 75849125874     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0911632106     Document Type: Article

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