This process occurs via a "gating spring" mechanism when tip links detect changes in the distance between apical projections containing stretchgated channels that take in potassium from the endolymph.
An SLC26 anion transporter involved in this process acts as a non-enzymatic motor, uses charged residues as voltage sensors and can generate nonlinear capacitance. A protocadherin mutation causes defects in this process in Ames waltzer mice, while shaker-1 mice exhibit disorganized cell bundles that impede this process due to a mutation in unconventional myosin VIIa. The formation of an extracellular matrix of alpha- and beta-tectorin is critical for this process, which is amplified by prestin in the (*) OHCs. This process occurs via a "gating spring" mechanism when tip links detect changes in the distance between apical projections containing stretchgated channels that take in potassium from the endolymph. Like balance, this process employs hair cells. For 10 points, name this form of signal transduction mediated by the kinocilia and stereocilia of the Organ of Corti in the cochlea.
An SLC26 anion transporter involved in this process acts as a non-enzymatic motor, uses charged residues as voltage sensors and can generate nonlinear capacitance.
hearing [accept equivalents; accept balance or coordination or sense of equilibrium or vestibular system before "balance"; prompt on "mechanoception" or "mechanoreception"; prompt on signal "transduction" or "signaling" before mentioned; prompt on any answers about sensory physiology or sensory reception or equivalents]