Article Information
- Received December 20, 2009
- Revision received January 25, 2010
- Accepted February 8, 2010
- First published March 10, 2010.
- Version of record published March 10, 2010.
Author Information
- Ekim Özkaynak1,*,
- Gina Abello1,*,
- Martine Jaegle1,
- Laura van Berge1,
- Diana Hamer1,
- Linde Kegel1,
- Siska Driegen1,
- Koji Sagane2,
- John R. Bermingham Jr3, and
- Dies Meijer1
- 1Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, Erasmus University Medical Center, 3015 GE Rotterdam, The Netherlands,
- 2Tsukuba Research Laboratories, Eisai Co. Ltd., Tokodai 5-1-3, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 300-2635, Japan, and
- 3McLaughlin Research Institute, Great Falls, Montana 59405
- Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Dies N. Meijer, Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, Erasmus University Medical Center, Dr Molewaterplein 50, 3015 GE Rotterdam, The Netherlands. d.meijer{at}erasmusmc.nl
Author contributions
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↵*E.Ö. and G.A. contributed equally to this work.
Disclosures
- Received December 20, 2009.
- Revision received January 25, 2010.
- Accepted February 8, 2010.
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This work was supported by grants from the Dutch government; Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research VICI Grant 918.66.616 (D.M.), BSIK programme 03038, ‘Stem cells in development and disease’ (D.M.), the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under Grant Agreement No. HEALTH-F2-2008-201535 (D.M.), National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Grant R01NS40751 (J.R.B.), and Muscular Dystrophy Association Grant 4147 (J.R.B.). G.A. is a recipient of a European Union FP7 Marie Curie Fellowship (PIEF-GA-2009-236638).Wethank Tom de Vries Lentsch for help in preparing the figures, Ivo Spiegel and Elior Peles (Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel) for Fc-fusion expression cassettes, Carla Taveggia (San Raffaele, Milan, Italy) for ErbB2-Fc and ErbB3-Fc vectors and expert advice, and Elaine Dzierzak for critically reading the manuscript.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Dies N. Meijer, Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, Erasmus University Medical Center, Dr Molewaterplein 50, 3015 GE Rotterdam, The Netherlands. d.meijer{at}erasmusmc.nl
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