PIEZO2

Eric M Mulhall1, Oleg Yarishkin2, Rose Z Hill2,3,4

  • 1Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Neuroscience, Dorris Neuroscience Center, Scripps Research, La Jolla, CA, USA. emulhall@scripps.edu.

Nature
|March 4, 2026
PubMed
概括

作为一种机械敏感通道,PIEZO2在本质上比PIEZO1更为刚硬. 它独特的封闭性质受到actin细胞骨和filamin-B的影响,使其能够产生特殊的触摸感觉.

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