Ashmore, J;
(2019)
Outer Hair Cells and Electromotility.
Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine
, 9
, Article a033522. 10.1101/cshperspect.a033522.
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Abstract
Outer hair cells (OHCs) of the mammalian cochlea behave like actuators: they feed energy into the cochlear partition and determine the overall mechanics of hearing. They do this by generating voltage-dependent axial forces. The resulting change in the cell length, observed by microscopy, has been termed “electromotility.” The mechanism of force generation OHCs can be traced to a specific protein, prestin, a member of a superfamily SLC26 of transporters. This short review will identify some of the more recent findings on prestin. Although the tertiary structure of prestin has yet to be determined, results from the presence of its homologs in nonmammalian species suggest a possible conformation in mammalian OHCs, how it can act like a transport protein, and how it may have evolved.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Outer Hair Cells and Electromotility |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1101/cshperspect.a033522 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1101/cshperspect.a033522 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Div of Biosciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Div of Biosciences > Neuro, Physiology and Pharmacology |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10062987 |
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