Roles of the espin actin-bundling proteins in the morphogenesis and stabilization of hair cell stereocilia revealed in CBA/CaJ congenic jerker mice

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Sekerková, Gabriella ^a   Richter, Claus Peter ^a   Bartles, James R ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; ESPIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; ESPIN PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; CELL ELONGATION; CELL FATE; CELL MATURATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; CONGENIC STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HAIR CELL; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; MEMBRANE STABILIZATION; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; STEREOCILIUM; VESTIBULAR SYSTEM; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; CBA MOUSE; COCHLEA; EUKARYOTIC FLAGELLUM; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOUSE MUTANT; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VESTIBULE;

MUS;

ANIMALS; CILIA; COCHLEA; FEMALE; HAIR CELLS, AUDITORY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED CBA; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MORPHOGENESIS; VESTIBULE, LABYRINTH;

EID: 79953752416     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002032     Document Type: Article

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