Article Information
- Received December 4, 2009
- Revision received January 19, 2010
- Accepted October 5, 2010
- First published December 1, 2010.
- Version of record published December 1, 2010.
Author Information
- 1Structural Biology Center, National Institute of Genetics, Research Organization of Information and Systems, and Department of Genetics, Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Shizuoka 411-8540, Japan,
- 2Department of Biological Sciences, Osaka University, Osaka 560-0043, and
- 3PRESTO (Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology), Japan Science and Technology Agency, Tokyo 102-0075, Japan
- Correspondence should be addressed to Koutarou D. Kimura, Department of Biological Sciences, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan. kokimura-lab{at}umin.ac.jp
Author contributions
Disclosures
- Received December 4, 2009.
- Revision received January 19, 2010.
- Accepted October 5, 2010.
This work was supported by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) (to I.K. and K.D.K) and (C) and Osaka University Life Science Young Independent Researcher Support Program through Special Coordination Funds for Promoting Science and Technology from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology (PRESTO) from Japan Science and Technology Agency, and Transdisciplinary Incubation Fund from Research Organization of Information and Systems (to K.D.K). We thank H. Nakamura, A. Matsusue, H. Makino, A. Yamazoe, T. Takano-Shimizu, H. Kagoshima, R. Tsien, A. Fire, M. Koga, T. Ishihara, J. Umemori, P. Sengupta, A. Samuel, C. Rankin, A. Hart, S. Suo, and C. Bargmann for assistance, suggestions, and reagents, and O. Hobert for comments on the manuscript. We also thank M. Tomioka and Y. Iino for kindly providing the C. elegans promoter library. Some nematode strains used in this work were provided by C. Bargmann, by the Caenorhabditis Genetics Center funded by the National Institutes of Health National Center for Research Resources, and by the National Bioresource Project funded by MEXT in Japan.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Koutarou D. Kimura, Department of Biological Sciences, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan. kokimura-lab{at}umin.ac.jp
