Article Information
- Received August 23, 2012
- Revision received June 19, 2013
- Accepted June 28, 2013
- First published August 14, 2013.
- Version of record published August 14, 2013.
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Author contributions
Author contributions: Y.F., T. Namba, N.I., and K. Kaibuchi designed research; Y.F., T. Namba, S.F., N.I., S.N., K. Kato, and T. Nishioka performed research; Y.F., S.F., S.N., K. Kato, A.S., C.X., W.S., and T. Nishioka contributed unpublished reagents/analytic tools; Y.F. and S.F. analyzed data; Y.F., T. Namba, and K. Kaibuchi wrote the paper.
Disclosures
- Received August 23, 2012.
- Revision received June 19, 2013.
- Accepted June 28, 2013.
This work was supported by the Japan Science and Technology Agency, Core Research for Evolutionary Science and Technology (CREST); Grant (S) 20227006 from Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) (K. Kaibuchi); Grant 23123507 from Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas “Neural Diversity and Neocortical Organization” from Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (K. Kaibuchi); a Grant-in-aid for Global COE Research from MEXT; and Grant 20-4053 from Grants-in-aid for JSPS (S.N.). A part of this study is the result of “Bioinformatics of Brain Sciences” carried out under the Strategic Research Program for Brain Sciences by MEXT. We thank F. Murakami and Y. Yamasaki for in utero electroporation (Osaka University, Osaka, Japan); T. Miyata and A. Sakakibara for technical assistance and preparation of some materials (Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan); M. Inagaki and M. Matsuyama (Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute, Nagoya, Japan) for the purification of antibodies; T. Nishimura (RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Kobe, Japan), N. Arimura (National Institute of Neuroscience, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo, Japan), and T. Yoshimura (National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Okazaki, Japan) for helpful discussions, and the preparation of some materials; F. Ishidate for help with acquiring and analyzing images; all the members of the K. Kaibuchi laboratory for technical support; T. Ishii for secretarial assistance; M. Amano, T. Watanabe, D. Mori, D. Tsuboi, K. Kuroda, K. Sato, K. Matsuzawa, M. Matsui, and T. Hamaguchi for helpful discussions, and the preparation of some materials; the Division of Medical Research Engineering of the Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine (I. Mizuguchi and Y. Fujita) for the use of ImageQuant LAS 4010 (GE Biohealthcare Bioscience) and Nikon-A1 microscopy; the Radioisotope Center Medical Branch, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine (Technical Staff, N. Hamada and Y. Nakamura); and the Nikon Imaging Laboratory of the Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo for the use of Nikon N-SIM (K. Tokunaga).
The authors declare no competing financial interests.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Kozo Kaibuchi, Department of Cell Pharmacology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, 65 Tsurumai, Showa, Nagoya 466-8550, Japan. kaibuchi{at}med.nagoya-u.ac.jp
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