06/17/2022
Primer
A structural zipper defective in blindness
Siebren Faber and Ronald Roepman explore a PLOS Biology study which uses ultrastructure expansion microscopy to study the inner scaffold of the photoreceptor connecting cilium, the location of multiple proteins implicated in inherited forms of progressive sight loss such as retinitis pigmentosa and Leber congenital amaurosis.
Image credit: pbio.3001672
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