Article Information
- Received August 21, 2012
- Revision received January 23, 2013
- Accepted February 5, 2013
- First published March 20, 2013.
- Version of record published March 20, 2013.
Author Information
- Yingchuan B. Qi1,2,
- Michelle D. Po3,4,
- Patrick Mac5,
- Taizo Kawano3,
- Erik M. Jorgensen5,
- Mei Zhen3,4, and
- Yishi Jin2
- 1Institute of Developmental and Regenerative Biology, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Hangzhou Normal University, 310036 Hangzhou, China,
- 2Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Neurobiology Section, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093,
- 3Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X5, Canada,
- 4Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A8, Canada, and
- 5Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Biology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112
Author contributions
Author contributions: Y.B.Q., M.D.P., M.Z., and Y.J. designed research; Y.B.Q. and M.D.P. performed research; P.M., T.K., and E.M.J. contributed unpublished reagents/analytic tools; Y.B.Q., M.D.P., M.Z., and Y.J. analyzed data; Y.B.Q., M.Z., and Y.J. wrote the paper.
Disclosures
- Received August 21, 2012.
- Revision received January 23, 2013.
- Accepted February 5, 2013.
This work was supported by National Institutes of Health Grants 5R01NS035546 (Y.J.) and 5R01NS034307 (E.M.J.), Canadian Institutes of Health Research Grants MOP74530 and 93619 (M.Z.), and National Natural Science Foundation of China Grant NSFC31171197 (Y.B.Q.). The work by Y.B.Q. was mainly performed at the University of California, Division of Biological Sciences, Neurobiology Section, where he was a research scientist supported by National Institutes of Health Grant NS035546 awarded to Y.J., M.D.P. was supported by a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada postgraduate fellowship. Y.J. and E.M.J. are investigators of Howard Hughes Medical Institute. We thank C. Giurumescu for help in light control device, Z. Wu for imaging analysis, and A. D. Chisholm and laboratory members for discussions.
The authors declare no competing financial interests.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Yingchuan B. Qi, Institute of Developmental and Regenerative Biology, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Hangzhou Normal University, 310036 Hangzhou, China. billyqi{at}idrbio.org
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