Lipid bilayer mediates ion-channel cooperativity in a model of hair-cell mechanotransduction [Neuroscience]

Mechanoelectrical transduction in the inner ear is a biophysical process underlying the senses of hearing and balance. The key players involved in this process are mechanosensitive ion channels. They are located in the stereocilia of hair cells and opened by the tension in specialized molecular springs, the tip links, connecting...

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