Length regulation of mechanosensitive stereocilia depends on very slow actin dynamics and filament-severing proteins

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Narayanan, Praveena ^a   Chatterton, Paul ^a   Ikeda, Akihiro ^b   Ikeda, Sakae ^b   Corey, David P ^c   Ervasti, James M ^a   Perrin, Benjamin J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; BETA ACTIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

MUSCLE; PROTEIN; SENSORY SYSTEM;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAIR CELL; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; STEREOCILIUM; TURNOVER TIME; ANIMAL; CORTI ORGAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; PHYSIOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ACTIN CYTOSKELETON; ACTINS; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MICE; ORGAN OF CORTI;

EID: 84928381160     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7855     Document Type: Article

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