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Complexes of Usher proteins preassemble at the endoplasmic reticulum and are required for trafficking and ER homeostasis.
Disease models & mechanisms - 1 May 2014
Blanco-Sánchez Bernardo, Clément Aurélie, Fierro Javier, Washbourne Philip, Westerfield Monte
Abstract excerpt
Usher syndrome (USH), the leading cause of hereditary combined hearing and vision loss, is characterized by sensorineural deafness and progressive retinal degeneration. Mutations in several different genes produce USH, but the proximal cause of sensory cell death remains mysterious. We adapted a proximity ligation assay to analyze associations among three of the USH proteins, Cdh23, Harmonin and Myo7aa, and the...
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