Article Information
- Received December 16, 2012
- Revision received March 11, 2013
- Accepted April 1, 2013
- First published May 8, 2013.
- Version of record published May 8, 2013.
Author Information
- Garrett G. Gross1,3,*,
- G. Mohiddin Lone1,3,*,
- Lok Kwan Leung1,3,
- Volker Hartenstein4,5, and
- Ming Guo1,2,3,4
- 1Department of Neurology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095,
- 2Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095,
- 3Brain Research Institute, The David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095,
- 4Molecular Biology Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, and
- 5Department of Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095
Author contributions
Author contributions: G.G.G., G.M.L., L.K.L., V.H., and M.G. designed research; G.G.G., G.M.L., and L.K.L. performed research; G.G.G., G.M.L., L.K.L., V.H., and M.G. analyzed data; G.G.G., V.H., and M.G. wrote the paper.
↵*G.G.G and G.M.L. contributed equally to this work.
Disclosures
- Received December 16, 2012.
- Revision received March 11, 2013.
- Accepted April 1, 2013.
This work was supported by grants and funds from the National Institutes of Health (RO1 NS054814 to V.H. and RO1 NS48396 to M.G.) and from the Klingenstein Fellowship Awards in the Neurosciences, the Larry P. Hillblom Foundation, the Glenn Family Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to M.G. We are very grateful to K. White, V. Budnik, L. Luo, Y.N. Jan, K. Matsuno, T. Suzuki, C. Goodman, and D. St. Johnston for fly strains, antibodies, and DNA constructs; to J.H. Wang and H. Huang for experimental assistance; and to A. Sagasti and members of the Hartenstein and Guo laboratories for discussions.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Ming Guo, MD, PhD, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, 695 Charles Young Drive, South, Los Angeles, California 90095-1761. mingfly{at}ucla.edu
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