Article Information
- Received July 22, 2010
- Revision received September 12, 2010
- Accepted October 26, 2010
- First published January 12, 2011.
- Version of record published January 12, 2011.
Author Information
- Mingkuan Sun 1 , 2 ,
- Guanglin Xing 1 , 2 ,
- Liudi Yuan 1 , 3 ,
- Guangming Gan 1 , 2 ,
- David Knight 4 ,
- Sheila Irene With 4 ,
- Cui He 1 , 2 ,
- Junhai Han 1 , 2 ,
- Xiankun Zeng 2 ,
- Ming Fang 1 , 2 ,
- Gabrielle L. Boulianne 4 , and
- Wei Xie 1 , 2
- 1The Key Laboratory of Developmental Genes and Human Disease, Ministry of Education, Institute of Life Science, Southeast University, Nanjing 210009, China,
- 2Departments of Medical Genetics and Developmental Biology and
- 3Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical School of Southeast University, Nanjing 210009, China, and
- 4Program in Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children and Department Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5G 1L7
- Correspondence should be addressed to either of the following: Gabrielle L. Boulianne or Wei Xie, Toronto Medical Discovery Tower, 12th Floor, East Tower, 101 College Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 1L7, gboul{at}sickkids.ca; Wei Xie, The Key Laboratory of Developmental Genes and Human Disease, Ministry of Education, Institute of Life Science, Southeast University, 87 Dingjiaqiao Road, Nanjing 210009, China, E-mail: wei.xie{at}seu.edu.cn
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Disclosures
- Received July 22, 2010.
- Revision received September 12, 2010.
- Accepted October 26, 2010.
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This work was supported by Natural Science Foundation of China Grant 30370698, Key Grant of Ministry of Education Grant 03083, National Basic Research Program (973 Program) Grant 2005CB522501, Foundation for Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of Southeast University Grant YBJJ0520, the Open Research Fund of Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Neurodegeneration, and Canadian Institutes for Health Research Grant MOP 14143. G.L.B. is the recipient of a Tier I Canada Research Chair in Molecular and Developmental Neurobiology. We thank Drs. Zhengping Jia, William Trimble, and Mei Zhen for useful discussions and critical comments on this manuscript. We also thank Dr. Yongqing Zhang for technical assistance with the electrophysiology experiments, Dr. Xun Huang for technical assistance with gene targeting, Dr. Chunjie Zhao for helpful suggestions, and Jinjun Qian for help with bioinformatics. We are grateful to Dr. A. DiAntonio for anti-DGluR antibodies, Dr. N. Harden for anti-DPAK antibody, and the Bloomington Stock Center for providing Drosophila stocks.
- Correspondence should be addressed to either of the following: Gabrielle L. Boulianne or Wei Xie, Toronto Medical Discovery Tower, 12th Floor, East Tower, 101 College Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 1L7, gboul{at}sickkids.ca; Wei Xie, The Key Laboratory of Developmental Genes and Human Disease, Ministry of Education, Institute of Life Science, Southeast University, 87 Dingjiaqiao Road, Nanjing 210009, China, E-mail: wei.xie{at}seu.edu.cn
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