Article Information
- Received March 25, 1999
- Revision received July 16, 1999
- Accepted July 21, 1999
- First published October 1, 1999.
- Version of record published October 1, 1999.
Author Information
- Akio Tsuboi1,
- Sei-ichi Yoshihara1,
- Nika Yamazaki2,
- Hiroaki Kasai2,
- Hisae Asai-Tsuboi2,
- Madoka Komatsu1,
- Shou Serizawa1,
- Tomohiro Ishii1,
- Yoichi Matsuda3,
- Fumikiyo Nagawa1, and
- Hitoshi Sakano1,2
- 1Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113–0032, Japan,
- 2Department of Cell Biology, National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki 444–8585, Japan, and
- 3Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464–8601, Japan
Author contributions
Disclosures
- Received March 25, 1999.
- Revision received July 16, 1999.
- Accepted July 21, 1999.
This work was supported by the Special Promotion Research Grant from the Ministry of Education and Culture of Japan and by grants from Toray Science Foundation, Nissan Science Foundation, Mitsubishi Foundation, and Sumitomo Foundation. A.T. was supported by fellowships from the Daikou Foundation and the Tohkai Foundation for the Promotion of Industry and Technology. We thank Drs. Hiroshi Kiyama (Asahikawa Medical School), Ichiro Naruse (Kyoto University), and Tetsuo Yamamori (Institute for Basic Biology) for helpful discussion and suggestions, and Dr. Anthony J. Otsuka (Illinois State University) and Ms. Hitomi Sakano (University of California at Berkeley) for critical reading of this manuscript.
Dr. Tsuboi and Mr. Yoshihara contributed equally to this work.
The DDBJ accession numbers for the sequences reported in this paper areAB030892-AB030896.
Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Akio Tsuboi, Room 111B, Science Building #3, Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry, University of Tokyo, 2-11-16 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113–0032, Japan.
