title: Actin in the inner ear: the remarkable structure of the stereocilium.
abstract: The actin filament bundle in the stereocilium of the cochlear hair cell has liquid transverse order, but paracrystalline axial order. A single bonding rule, which determines how a cross bridging protein links neighbouring filaments, accounts for this unusual structure. Such liquid order is possible for bundles of other filamentous proteins.
mesh_terms: D000199:Actins; D000818:Animals; D002923:Cilia / Q000648:ultrastructure; D003599:Cytoskeleton / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D006198:Hair Cells, Auditory / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D008116:Lizards; D011485:Protein Binding
chemical_list: D000199:Actins