Prestin
id:
prestin-260-2650959
title:
Prestin
text:
Prestin is a protein that is critical to sensitive hearing in mammals. It is encoded by the SLC26A5 gene. Prestin is the motor protein of the outer hair cells of the inner ear of the mammalian cochlea. It is highly expressed in the outer hair cells, and is not expressed in the nonmotile inner hair cells. Immunolocalization shows prestin is expressed in the lateral plasma membrane of the outer hair cells, the region where electromotility occurs. The expression pattern correlates with the appearan
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Protein-coding gene in the species Homo sapiens
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prestin
date created:
date modified:
2024-04-09T23:14:04Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q14876823","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q14876823"}
image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/Ideogram_human_chromosome_7.svg","width":474,"height":189}
fields total:
13
integrity:
15