Article Information
- Received June 12, 2012
- Revision received December 20, 2012
- Accepted December 24, 2012
- First published February 13, 2013.
- Version of record published February 13, 2013.
Author Information
- Hongyan Li1,
- Zhijing Zhang1,
- Michael R. Blackburn2,3,
- Steven W. Wang1,3,
- Christophe P. Ribelayga1,3, and
- John O'Brien1,3
- 1Richard S. Ruiz, MD, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, The University of Texas Medical School and
- 2Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas Medical School, Houston, Texas 77030; and
- 3Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas 77030
Author contributions
Author contributions: H.L., S.W.W., C.P.R., and J.O. designed research; H.L. and Z.Z. performed research; M.R.B., S.W.W., and C.P.R. contributed unpublished reagents/analytic tools; H.L., C.P.R., and J.O. analyzed data; H.L. and J.O. wrote the paper.
Disclosures
- Received June 12, 2012.
- Revision received December 20, 2012.
- Accepted December 24, 2012.
This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health Grants EY012857 (J.O.), EY018640 (C.P.R.), EY018352 (S.W.W.), HL070952 (M.R.B.), and core grant EY010608. We thank Dr. Jaroslaw Aronowski and Dr. Xiurong Zhao for assistance with real-time PCR, Dr. Roger Janz for donating the antibody against syntaxin3, Jose G. Molina and Ya-Ping Lin for help with animal maintenance and breeding, Dr. Stephen C. Massey for help with confocal microscopy, and Dr. Carmen W. Dessauer for helpful discussion on this study.
The authors declare no competing financial interests.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. John O'Brien, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, 6431 Fannin Street, MSB 7.024, Houston, TX 77030. John.OBrien{at}uth.tmc.edu
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