Article Information
- Received August 18, 2013
- Revision received December 13, 2013
- Accepted January 13, 2014
- First published February 12, 2014.
- Version of record published February 12, 2014.
Author Information
- Yoshiaki Ohtani1,*,
- Mariko Miyata2,3,4,*,
- Kouichi Hashimoto4,5,
- Toshihide Tabata6,
- Yasushi Kishimoto7,
- Masahiro Fukaya8,
- Daisuke Kase2,
- Hidetoshi Kassai1,9,
- Kazuki Nakao9,10,
- Tatsumi Hirata11,
- Masahiko Watanabe12,
- Masanobu Kano5, and
- Atsu Aiba1,9
- 1Division of Molecular Genetics, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe 650-0017, Japan,
- 2Department of Information Physiology, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Okazaki 444-8585, Japan,
- 3Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo 162-8666, Japan,
- 4PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Saitama 332-0012, Japan,
- 5Department of Neurophysiology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan,
- 6Laboratory for Neural Information Technology, Graduate School of Sciences and Engineering, University of Toyama, Toyama 930-8555, Japan,
- 7Laboratory of Neurobiophysics, Kagawa School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokushima Bunri University, Kagawa 769-2193, Japan,
- 8Department of Anatomy, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Sagamihara 252-0374, Japan,
- 9Laboratory of Animal Resources, Center for Disease Biology and Integrative Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan,
- 10RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Kobe 650-0047, Japan,
- 11Division of Brain Function, National Institute of Genetics, Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Shizuoka 411-8540, Japan, and
- 12Department of Anatomy, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo 060-8638, Japan
Author contributions
Author contributions: M.K. and A.A. designed research; Y.O., M.M., K.H., T.T., Y.K., M.F., D.K., H.K., K.N., and M.W. performed research; T.H. contributed unpublished reagents/analytic tools; Y.O., M.M., K.H., T.T., Y.K., M.F., D.K., H.K., and M.W. analyzed data; M.M., M.K., and A.A. wrote the paper.
↵*Y.O. and M.M. contributed equally to this work.
Disclosures
- Received August 18, 2013.
- Revision received December 13, 2013.
- Accepted January 13, 2014.
This work has been supported by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (16015281 and 17024038 to A.A.; 17023021, 21220006, and 21650094 to M.K.; 20021029 to M.M.; 22300125 to K.H.; 19045019, 20022025, 20500284, 21026011, and 23500384 to T.T.; 20790084 to Y.K.), JST PRESTO program, Takeda Science Foundation, the Strategic Research Program for Brain Sciences (Development of Biomarker Candidates for Social Behavior), and the Global COE Program (Integrative Life Science Based on the Study of Biosignaling Mechanisms) from MEXT, Japan. We thank Dr. Shigetada Nakanishi for rat mGluR1a cDNA, Dr. John Oberdick for the L7 gene cassette, and Dr. Yasumasa Ishida for β-globin insulator.
The authors declare no competing financial interests.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Atsu Aiba, Laboratory of Animal Resources, Center for Disease Biology and Integrative Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan. aiba{at}m.u-tokyo.ac.jp
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