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SUBMITTER: Soler DC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9925724 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Soler David C DC Ballesteros Angela A Sloan Andrew E AE McCormick Thomas S TS Stepanyan Ruben R
Scientific reports 20230213 1
The mechano-electrical transduction (MET) channel of the inner ear receptor cells, termed hair cells, is a protein complex that enables our senses of hearing and balance. Hair cell MET requires an elaborate interplay of multiple proteins that form the MET channel. One of the MET complex components is the transmembrane protein LHFPL5, which is required for hair cell MET and hearing. LHFPL5 is thought to form a multi-protein complex with other MET channel proteins, such as PCDH15, TMIE, and TMC1. ...[more]