Article Information
- Received March 25, 2009
- Revision received May 20, 2009
- Accepted June 1, 2009
- First published July 8, 2009.
- Version of record published July 8, 2009.
Author Information
- Annalisa Bolis 1 , 2 ,
- Silvia Coviello 1 , 2 ,
- Ilaria Visigalli 3 ,
- Carla Taveggia 2 ,
- Angela Bachi 4 ,
- Athar H. Chishti 5 ,
- Toshihiko Hanada 5 ,
- Angelo Quattrini 2 ,
- Stefano Carlo Previtali 2 ,
- Alessandra Biffi 3 , and
- Alessandra Bolino 1 , 2
- 1Dulbecco Telethon Institute,
- 2INSPE–Institute of Experimental Neurology,
- 3San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy, and
- 4Biological Mass Spectrometry, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, 20132 Milan, Italy, and
- 5Department of Pharmacology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois 60612
- Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Alessandra Bolino, Dulbecco Telethon Institute and INSPE–Institute of Experimental Neurology, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, 20132 Milan, Italy. bolino.alessandra{at}hsr.it
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Disclosures
- Received March 25, 2009.
- Revision received May 20, 2009.
- Accepted June 1, 2009.
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This work was supported by the Italian Telethon, Association Française contre les Myopathies, E-Rare (ERA-Net for research programs on rare diseases), Compagnia San Paolo, and Istituto Superiore di Sanità (A. Bolino). A. Bolino is a recipient of a Telethon Career Award. C.T. is supported by Fondazione Italiana Sclerosi Multipla cod 2007/PC/01. We thank Drs. P. Brophy and D. Sherman for providing the nerve cDNA library, Dr. S. Hsu for the generous gift of Sec8 plasmid and antibody, Dr. T. Nakagawa for the anti-Dlg1 antibody, Dr. E. Peles for the anti-Caspr antibody, and Dr. V. Lee for the anti-MBP antibody. We are indebted to Dr. J. Salzer for providing the protocol for the coculture assessment. We also thank Dr. P. Podini for her help with electron microscopy. We are also indebted to Drs. De Camilli, M. L. Feltri, and L. Wrabetz for comments and critical reading of this manuscript. A. Bolino wishes to dedicate this paper to the memory of Mario Bolino.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Alessandra Bolino, Dulbecco Telethon Institute and INSPE–Institute of Experimental Neurology, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, 20132 Milan, Italy. bolino.alessandra{at}hsr.it
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