Article Information
- Received July 25, 1997
- Revision received October 10, 1997
- Accepted October 15, 1997
- First published January 1, 1998.
- Version of record published January 1, 1998.
Author Information
- Jun Aruga1,
- Osamu Minowa2,
- Hiroyuki Yaginuma3,
- Junko Kuno2,
- Takeharu Nagai1,
- Tetsuo Noda2, and
- Katsuhiko Mikoshiba1,4,5
- 1Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, Tsukuba Life Science Center and Brain Science Institute, Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan,
- 2Department of Cell Biology, Cancer Institute, Tokyo 170, Japan,
- 3Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan,
- 4; Department of Molecular Neurobiology, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 108, Japan, and
- 5Calciosignal Net Project, Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology, Tokyo 153, Japan
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Disclosures
- Received July 25, 1997.
- Revision received October 10, 1997.
- Accepted October 15, 1997.
This work was supported by special coordination funds for promoting science and technology, Grants from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Science, and Culture to J.A. and K.M., a Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology grant from the of Japan Science and Technology Cooperation to J.A., and Japanese Brain Science Foundation funds awarded to J.A. We thank Drs. Hidehiro Mizusawa, Shigeki Yuasa, Toshio Terashima, Katsunori Nakata, Toshiyuki Nakagawa, Hitoshi Niwa, Ken-ichi Yamamura, and Masahiko Watanabe for their helpful advice, Drs. Nissim Ben-Arie and Huda Zoghbi for sharing their results before publication, Dr. Paul Greengard for providing one of the antibodies, Dr. Takeshi Yagi for plasmids, and Ms. Qing Nie, Naoko Fujimoto, Yoko Nishi, Noriko Sugae, and Megumi Yakuwa for technical assistance.
Correspondence should be addressed to Jun Aruga, Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, Tsukuba Life Science Center, Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), 3-1-1 Koyadai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan.