A Myo6 Mutation Destroys Coordination between the Myosin Heads, Revealing New Functions of Myosin VI in the Stereocilia of Mammalian Inner Ear Hair Cells

• Ronna Hertzano ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ronna Hertzano, Ella Shalit, Agnieszka K. Rzadzinska

  Current address: Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

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• Ella Shalit ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ronna Hertzano, Ella Shalit, Agnieszka K. Rzadzinska

  Affiliation Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

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• Agnieszka K. Rzadzinska ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ronna Hertzano, Ella Shalit, Agnieszka K. Rzadzinska

  Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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• Amiel A. Dror,

  Affiliation Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

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• Lin Song,

  Affiliation Department of Physiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Uri Ron,

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

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• Joshua T. Tan,

  Affiliation Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

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• Alina Starovolsky Shitrit,

  Affiliation Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

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• Helmut Fuchs,

  Affiliation Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Institute of Experimental Genetics, Neuherberg, Germany

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• Tama Hasson,

  Current address: UCLA College of Letters and Science, Honors and Undergraduate Programs, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

  Affiliation Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

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• Nir Ben-Tal,

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

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• H. Lee Sweeney,

  Affiliation Department of Physiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Martin Hrabe de Angelis,

  Affiliations Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Institute of Experimental Genetics, Neuherberg, Germany, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

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• Karen P. Steel,

  Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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• Karen B. Avraham

  * E-mail: karena@post.tau.ac.il

  Affiliation Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

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