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SUBMITTER: Cyr JL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC18331 | biostudies-literature | 2000 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cyr J L JL Bell A M AM Hudspeth A J AJ
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20000401 9
Extensive biochemical characterization of cells in the inner ear has been hampered by a lack of tools with which to identify inner-ear proteins. By using a single-chain antibody fragment isolated from a bacteriophage-displayed library, we have identified a cytokeratin that is abundant in nonsensory cells of the frog inner ear. Although the progenitors of hair cells exhibit strong immunoreactivity to this cytokeratin, the signal declines in immature hair cells and vanishes as the cells mature. Th ...[more]