Prestin at year 14: Progress and prospect

Hearing Research

Volumn 311, Issue , 2014, Pages 25-35

  He, David Z Z ^a,b   Lovas, Sándor ^a   Ai, Yu ^c   Li, Yi ^a,d   Beisel, Kirk W ^a  

^a CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NINGBO UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SHANDONG PROVINCIAL HOSPITAL AFFILIATED TO SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PENDRIN; PRESTIN; ANION TRANSPORT PROTEIN; SLC26A5 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

CELL MOTILITY; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; HAIR CELL; HUMAN; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STRUCTURAL BIOINFORMATICS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSPORT KINETICS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; ORTHOLOGY; OUTER HAIR CELL; PARALOGY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; ANIMAL; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; HEARING; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; HAIR CELLS, AUDITORY, OUTER; HEARING; HUMANS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 84906512415     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: 18785891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2013.12.002     Document Type: Review

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