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Lack of PDZD7 long isoform disrupts ankle-link complex and causes hearing loss in mice.
FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology - 1 Jan 2020
Du Haibo, Zou Linzhi, Ren Rui, Li Nana, Li Jie, Wang Yanfei, Sun Jinpeng, Yang Jun, Xiong Wei, Xu Zhigang
Abstract excerpt
Usher syndrome (USH) is the most frequent form of combined hereditary deafness-blindness, characterized by hearing loss and retinitis pigmentosa, with or without vestibular dysfunction. PDZD7 is a PDZ domain-containing scaffold protein that was suggested to be a USH modifier and a contributor to digenic USH. In the inner ear hair cells, PDZD7 localizes at the ankle region of the stereocilia and constitutes the...
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