... Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided that the original work is properly attributed. Cdc42 Deafness Stereocilia...

... deafness, DFNB42, and found that most DFNB42-associated ILDR1 mutant proteins were defective in recruitment of tricellulin. We also found that tricellulin mutant proteins associated with another familial deafness, DFNB49, were not recruited to TCs by ILDR1. These findings show the heterogeneity...

... (e-mail: Gabriele.Richard@mail.tju.edu ) 28 2 2001 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2001 2001 Connexins Gap junctions Deafness Skin disorder Epidermal differentiation In solid tissues of metazoans, most cells form gap junctions: clusters of gated intercellular...