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Membrane Thickness Sensitivity of Prestin Orthologs: The Evolution of a Piezoelectric Protein

How proteins evolve new functionality is an important question in biology; prestin (SLC26A5) is a case in point. Prestin drives outer hair cell somatic motility and amplifies mechanical vibrations in the mammalian cochlea. The motility of mammalian prestin is analogous to piezoelectricity, in which...

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Main Authors: Izumi, Chisako, Bird, Jonathan E., Iwasa, Kuni H.
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: The Biophysical Society 2011
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Acceso en liña:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3117168/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21641306
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2011.04.032
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