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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4 Pt 1
pubmed:dateCreated
1989-11-2
pubmed:abstractText
The sensory epithelium of the chick cochlea contains only two cell types, hair cells and supporting cells. We developed methods to rapidly dissect out the sensory epithelium and to prepare a detergent-extracted cytoskeleton. High salt treatment of the cytoskeleton leaves a "hair border", containing actin filament bundles of the stereocilia still attached to the cuticular plate. On SDS-PAGE stained with silver the intact epithelium is seen to contain a large number of bands, the most prominent of which are calbindin and actin. Detergent extraction solubilizes most of the proteins including calbindin. On immunoblots antibodies prepared against fimbrin from chicken intestinal epithelial cells cross react with the 57- and 65-kD bands present in the sensory epithelium and the cytoskeleton. It is probable that the 57-kD is a proteolytic fragment of the 65-kD protein. Preparations of stereocilia attached to the overlying tectorial membrane contain the 57- and 65-kD bands. A 400-kD band is present in the cuticular plate. By immunofluorescence, fimbrin is detected in stereocilia but not in the hair borders after salt extraction. The prominent 125 A transverse stripping pattern characteristic of the actin cross-bridges in a bundle is also absent in hair borders suggesting fimbrin as the component that gives rise to the transverse stripes. Because the actin filaments in the stereocilia of hair borders still remain as compact bundles, albeit very disordered, there must be an additional uncharacterized protein besides fimbrin that cross-links the actin filaments together.
pubmed:grant
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0021-9525
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
109
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1711-23
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:2677026-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:2677026-Calcium-Binding Protein, Vitamin D-Dependent, pubmed-meshheading:2677026-Carrier Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:2677026-Chickens, pubmed-meshheading:2677026-Cilia, pubmed-meshheading:2677026-Cytoskeleton, pubmed-meshheading:2677026-Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel, pubmed-meshheading:2677026-Epithelial Cells, pubmed-meshheading:2677026-Epithelium, pubmed-meshheading:2677026-Fluorescent Antibody Technique, pubmed-meshheading:2677026-Hair Cells, Auditory, pubmed-meshheading:2677026-Immunoblotting, pubmed-meshheading:2677026-Membrane Glycoproteins, pubmed-meshheading:2677026-Membrane Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:2677026-Microfilament Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:2677026-Microscopy, Electron, pubmed-meshheading:2677026-Molecular Weight, pubmed-meshheading:2677026-Organelles
pubmed:year
1989
pubmed:articleTitle
Preliminary biochemical characterization of the stereocilia and cuticular plate of hair cells of the chick cochlea.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't