Actin in the inner ear: the remarkable structure of the stereocilium
- 1 September 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature
- Vol. 287 (5780) , 291-296
- https://doi.org/10.1038/287291a0
Abstract
The actin filament, bundle in the stereocilium of the cochlear hair cell has liquid transverse order, but paracrystalline axial order. A single bonding rule, which determines how a cross bridging protein links neighboring filaments, accounts for this unusual structure. Such liquid order is possible for bundles of other filamentous proteins.This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
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