The Mammalian Staufen Protein Localizes to the Somatodendritic Domain of Cultured Hippocampal Neurons: Implications for Its Involvement in mRNA Transport

This work was supported by a postdoctoral fellowship from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (M.A.K.), research fellowships from the HFSPO (M.A.K. and P.F.), a University Scholar Program of the University of Pennsylvania (I.H.), an EC grant and fellowship (P.V. and P.F., respectively), the PNFPI (R.M.M.), PGC Grant PB94–1542 (J.O.), and Sonderforschungsbereich Grant SFB-317 (C.G.D.). We thank B. Hellias and S. Brendel for technical assistance, Drs. L. Des Groseillers and D. St. Johnston for courteously communicating unpublished results and support, Drs. S. Cohen, A. Ephrussi, N. Gunkel, I. Mattaj, J. C. López-Garcı́a, P. Scheiffele, and D. St. Johnston for discussions and/or critical reading of this manuscript.

Correspondence should be addressed to M. Kiebler, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Cell Biology Programme, Meyerhofstrasse 1, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany. E-mail address: Kiebler{at}EMBL-Heidelberg.de