Article Information
- Received May 13, 2014
- Revision received August 14, 2014
- Accepted September 9, 2014
- First published October 15, 2014.
- Version of record published October 15, 2014.
Author Information
- Vasanth Ramamurthy1,2,
- Christine Jolicoeur1,
- Demetra Koutroumbas1,3,
- Johanna Mühlhans4,
- Yun-Zheng Le5,
- William W. Hauswirth6,
- Andreas Giessl4, and
- Michel Cayouette1,2,3,7
- 1Institut de recherches cliniques de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec H2W 1R7, Canada,
- 2Division of Experimental Medicine and
- 3Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2B2, Canada,
- 4Department of Biology, Animal Physiology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, 91058 Erlangen, Germany,
- 5Department of Medicine and Harold Hamm Diabetes Center, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73104,
- 6Department of Ophthalmology and Powell Gene Therapy Center, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32610, and
- 7Department of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, H3T 1P1 Canada
Author contributions
Author contributions: V.R. and M.C. designed research; V.R., C.J., D.K., J.M., and A.G. performed research; Y.Z.-L. and W.W.H. contributed unpublished reagents/analytic tools; V.R., C.J., A.G., and M.C. analyzed data; V.R. and M.C. wrote the paper.
Disclosures
- Received May 13, 2014.
- Revision received August 14, 2014.
- Accepted September 9, 2014.
This work was supported by operating grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Foundation Fighting Blindness Canada. V.R. received studentships from the Foundation Fighting Blindness Canada and the Fonds de recherche du Québec-Santé. M.C. is a Senior Fellow of the Fonds de recherche du Québec-Santé/Fondation Antoine-Turmel. We thank Robert Molday for the Cnga1, Abca4, Rom-1, Peripherin/rds, and rhodopsin antibodies, Stylianos Michalakis for the Cngb1 antibody, and Jeremy Nathans for the photoreceptor-specific cadherin antibody; Nadja Schröder-Kreβ for technical assistance with EM, Marie-Claude Bélanger for help with in vivo electroporations, and Jessica Barthe and Marie-Andrée Marcotte for animal colony management.
The authors declare no competing financial interests.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Dr Michel Cayouette, IRCM, 110 Avenue des Pins Ouest, Montreal, QC H2W 1R7, Canada. michel.cayouette{at}ircm.qc.ca
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