Structure of a Force-Conveying Cadherin Bond Essential for Inner-Ear Mechanotransduction
Sotomayor, M., Weihofen, W., Gaudet, R., Corey, D.P.(2012) Nature 492: 128
- PubMed: 23135401 
- DOI: 10.1038/nature11590
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
4APX, 4AQ8, 4AQA, 4AQE, 4AXW - PubMed Abstract: 
Hearing and balance use hair cells in the inner ear to transform mechanical stimuli into electrical signals. Mechanical force from sound waves or head movements is conveyed to hair-cell transduction channels by tip links, fine filaments formed by two atypical cadherins known as protocadherin 15 and cadherin 23 (refs 4, 5) ...