stereocilia tip link

id: GO:0002140
name: stereocilia tip link
namespace: cellular_component
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: A stereocilia link that is formed by a fine filament running more or less vertically upward from the tip of each shorter stereocilium to attach at a higher point on its adjacent taller neighbor. Tilting the bundle puts tension on the filaments, which pull on mechanically gated ion channels in the membrane of the stereocilia.

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