Insect mechanoreception: what a long, strange TRP it's been.
Insect bristles are model mechanosensory organs. An ion channel of the TRP superfamily has recently been identified which is required for production of mechanoreceptor currents by insect bristles, and seems likely to represent a new kind of mechanically gated channel.
Duggan
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Department of Neurobiology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
García-Añoveros
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D000818:Animals; D015220:Calcium Channels / Q000378:metabolism*; D004330:Drosophila / Q000502:physiology*; D029721:Drosophila Proteins; D019476:Insect Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D015640:Ion Channel Gating; D007473:Ion Channels / Q000378:metabolism; D008465:Mechanoreceptors / Q000502:physiology*; D050051:Transient Receptor Potential Channels
D015220:Calcium Channels; D029721:Drosophila Proteins; D019476:Insect Proteins; D007473:Ion Channels; C405783:NOMPC protein, Drosophila; D050051:Transient Receptor Potential Channels; C063169:trp protein, Drosophila