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Honing In on TMC as the Hair Cell's Transduction Channel
1Oregon Hearing Research Center & Vollum Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA.
Neuron
|August 24, 2018
Abstract:
The identity of the inner ear's transduction channel has bedeviled auditory neuroscientists for decades. In this issue of Neuron, Pan et al. (2018) report the most convincing evidence to date implicating the transmembrane channel-like (TMC) proteins as forming the pore of the transduction channel.