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- Received January 23, 2001
- Revision received March 15, 2001
- Accepted March 19, 2001
- First published June 1, 2001.
- Version of record published June 1, 2001.
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- Received January 23, 2001.
- Revision received March 15, 2001.
- Accepted March 19, 2001.
This work was supported by National Institutes of Health Grant NS35505 and the Muscular Dystrophy Association. We thank Dr. R. L. Huganir for rapsyn pGW1-CMV, myc-tagged Torpedo MuSK and inactive MuSK constructs, anti-rat agrin antibody (JH1037), anti-myc rabbit polyclonal (JH2235), and the phosphorylation-specific anti-AChR β (JH1360) and anti-δ (JH1358) subunit antibodies. We thank Dr. Z. W. Hall for the anti-MuSK rabbit polyclonal antibody, Dr. E. Ralston for the C2 cell line, Dr. S. Parsons for the Src-pCDNA3 construct, Dr. S. Desiderio for the Bruton's tyrosine kinase in pCIS-2, Dr. M. Ferns for the agrin constructs agrin C-4,8 and agrin C-0,0, Dr. C. R. King for the pGEX Grb2 SH2 construct, and Dr. J. Lindstrom for the rat monoclonal antibody (mAb 148) against the AChR β subunit. We also thank Anne Miermont for affinity purification of anti-Src-PY416 antibody, GW001. We thank Arlene Santos, Fa Yang, and Kate Landau for excellent technical assistance, and Dr. William Rosoff for helpful discussions.
Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Sheridan L. Swope, EP08 Research Building, Department of Neuroscience, Georgetown University Medical Center, 3970 Reservoir Road NW, Washington DC 20007. E-mail:swopes{at}giccs.georgetown.edu.
Dr. Mohamed's present address: Neurologic Inc., 15010 Broschart Road, Suite 200, Rockville, MD 20850.
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