prestin forms tetramer with each subunit being mechanically independent

• 机 构: departmentofbiomedicalsciences,instituteofotolaryngology
• 出 处: 中华耳科学杂志（英文版）
• 发表日期: 2009年2期
• 基金项目: supported by an NIDCD grant (R01DC004696) to DH,,by National Natural Science Foundation of China grants 30871398, 30730040 and 30628030 to SY and DH,,supported bygrant number G20RR024001 from the Nati

Prestin is the motor protein of cochlear outer hair cells (OHCs). It is able to perform rapid and reciprocal electromechanical conversion that underlies OHC electromotility. Due to the inadequate size of a single prestin molecule to form the ~12 nm intram