Article Information
- Received April 23, 2003
- Revision received June 3, 2003
- Accepted June 5, 2003
- First published July 30, 2003.
- Version of record published July 30, 2003.
Author Information
- Mutsuya Yamamoto1,2,3,
- Norio Wada2,
- Yasuji Kitabatake3,
- Dai Watanabe3,
- Masayuki Anzai4,
- Minesuke Yokoyama5,
- Yutaka Teranishi5, and
- Shigetada Nakanishi2,3
- 1Mitsubishi Pharma Corporation, Discovery Technology Laboratory, Yokohama, 227-0033, Japan, 2Department of Molecular and System Biology, Kyoto University Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan, 3Department of Biological Sciences, Kyoto University Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan, 4GenCom Corporation, Machida, 194-8511, Japan, and 5Mitsubishi Kagaku Institute of Life Sciences, Machida, 194-8511, Japan
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Disclosures
- Received April 23, 2003.
- Revision received June 3, 2003.
- Accepted June 5, 2003.
This work was supported in part by research grants from the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization and the Ministry of Education, Science, and Culture of Japan. We thank Shinichi Nakamura for a gift of Clostridium tetani (strain KZ1174), Mitsuaki Nishibuchi for a culture of C. tetani, and Masami Takahashi for a gift of rabbit polyclonal VAMP2 antibody. We also thank Hirohito Nishino, Tomoyuki Furuyashiki, Takayuki Nakagawa, Masamichi Satoh, and Takehisa Ishii for invaluable advice.
Correspondence should be addressed to Mutsuya Yamamoto, Mitsubishi Pharma Corporation, Discovery Technology Laboratory, 1000, Kamoshida-cho, Aoba-ku, Yokohama, 227-0033, Japan. E-mail: Yamamoto.Mutsuya{at}mf.m-pharma.co.jp.
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