Article Information
- Received August 28, 2000
- Revision received October 6, 2000
- Accepted October 11, 2000
- First published January 1, 2001.
- Version of record published January 1, 2001.
Author Information
- Iris Augustin1,
- Stefan Korte2,3,
- Michael Rickmann4,
- Hans A. Kretzschmar2,3,
- Thomas C. Südhof5,
- Jochen W. Herms2,3, and
- Nils Brose1
- 1AG Molekulare Neurobiologie, Max-Planck-Institut für experimentelle Medizin, D-37075 Göttingen, Germany,
- 2Institut für Neuropathologie, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, D-37075 Göttingen, Germany,
- 3Institut für Neuropathologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, D-81377 München, Germany,
- 4Zentrum Anatomie, Abteilung Neuroanatomie, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, D-37075 Göttingen, Germany, and
- 5Center for Basic Neuroscience, Department of Molecular Genetics, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75235
Author contributions
Disclosures
- Received August 28, 2000.
- Revision received October 6, 2000.
- Accepted October 11, 2000.
This work was supported by German Research Foundation Grants SFB406/A1 (to N.B.) and SFB406/A10 (to H.A.K. and J.W.H.) and by the Max-Planck-Society (N.B.). N.B. is a Heisenberg-Fellow of the German Research Foundation. We thank C. Rosenmund for helpful discussions and C. Pouzat for the program for analysis of spontaneous synaptic currents. We are particularly grateful to all members of the Max-Planck-Institut für experimentelle Medizin Animal Facility for help with mouse colonies, L. Kolb, J. Ficner, and R. Schubert for artwork, S. Wenger for excellent technical assistance, and F. Benseler and I. Thanhäuser for DNA synthesis and sequencing.
Drs. Augustin and Korte contributed equally to this work
Correspondence should be addressed to Nils Brose, Max-Planck-Institut für experimentelle Medizin, AG Molekulare Neurobiologie, Hermann-Rein-Straβe 3, D-37075 Göttingen, Germany. E-mail: brose{at}em.mpg.de.
