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The connecting cilium inner scaffold provides a structural foundation to maintain photoreceptor integrity
O. Mercey, C. Kostic, E. Bertiaux…·V. Hamel
The paper identifies the connecting cilium inner scaffold (CC-IS) as a structural zipper that maintains photoreceptor integrity by linking microtubules, and shows that its loss leads to retinal degeneration.
DOI 10.1101/2021.08.27.457921