Downsloping high-frequency hearing loss due to inner ear tricellular tight junction disruption by a novel ILDR1 mutation in the Ig-like domain.

The immunoglobulin (Ig)-like domain containing receptor 1 (ILDR1) gene encodes angulin-2/ILDR1, a recently discovered tight junction protein, which forms tricellular tight junction (tTJ) structures with tricellulin and lipolysis-stimulated lipoprotein receptor (LSR) at tricellular contacts (TCs) in...

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Main Authors: Nayoung K D Kim, Tomohito Higashi, Kyoung Yeul Lee, Ah Reum Kim, Shin-ichiro Kitajiri, Min Young Kim, Mun Young Chang, Veronica Kim, Seung-Ha Oh, Dongsup Kim, Mikio Furuse, Woong-Yang Park, Byung Yoon Choi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4323246?pdf=render