Click Link to see a dancing outer hair cell of a guinea pig http://auditoryneuroscience.com/?q=ear/dancing_hair_cell
A model animation showing a denatured protein going back to its original structure.
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Rupturing
Animation of Protocadherin 15 and Cadherin 23 bonds rupturing due to mimicking loud sounds. - Research produced by Marcos Sotomayor and Harvard Medical Team.
Cadherin-23 Denaturing
"Cadherin-23 structure revealed: A Harvard team identified the structure of a protein called cadherin-23, which helps mediate our perception of sound. This simulation “stretches” the two end-most segments of the cadherin-23 protein, much as loud noise might do to its real-life counterpart in the inner ear. Such extreme stress can cause cadherin-23 to break in billionths of a second." -Harvard Medical School
Video courtesy of Marcos Sotomayor
Video courtesy of Marcos Sotomayor