Article Information
- Received June 10, 2011
- Revision received August 7, 2011
- Accepted August 17, 2011
- First published October 12, 2011.
- Version of record published October 12, 2011.
Author Information
- Dianna E. Willis1,*,
- Mei Xu2,*,
- Christopher J. Donnelly3,*,
- Chhavy Tep4,
- Marvin Kendall5,
- Marina Erenstheyn5,
- Arthur W. English2,
- N. Carolyn Schanen3,5,
- Catherine B. Kirn-Safran3,
- Sung Ok Yoon4,
- Gary J. Bassell2, and
- Jeffery L. Twiss3,5,6
- 1Burke-Cornell Medical Research Institute, White Plains, New York 10605,
- 2Department of Cell Biology, Emory University Medical School, Atlanta, Georgia 30322,
- 3Department of Biological Science, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716,
- 4Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210,
- 5Nemours Biomedical Research, A.I. duPont Hospital, Wilmington, Delaware 19803, and
- 6Department of Biology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
Author contributions
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Author contributions: N.C.S., C.B.K.-S., A.W.E., S.O.Y., G.J.B., and J.L.T. designed research; D.E.W., M.X., C.J.D., C.T., M.K., and M.E. performed research; A.W.E. and G.J.B. contributed unpublished reagents/analytic tools; D.E.W., C.J.D., N.C.S., C.B.K.-S., S.O.Y., G.J.B., and J.L.T. analyzed data; D.E.W., G.J.B., and J.L.T. wrote the paper.
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↵*D.E.W., M.X., and C.J.D. share equal contribution to this work.
Disclosures
- Received June 10, 2011.
- Revision received August 7, 2011.
- Accepted August 17, 2011.
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This work was supported by funds from NIH (Grants R21-NS045880 and R01-NS041596 to J.L.T.; Grant K99-NR010797 to D.E.W.; Grant R21-NS060098 to G.J.B.; and Grant P20-RR15588 to C.B.K.-S.) and the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation (Grant TB2-0602 to J.L.T. and S.O.Y.). The Transgenic Core Facility of the University of Delaware was used to generate mice. The Nemours Core facilities provided technical assistance (Nemours Foundation and P20-RR020173 COBRE funding). Erin Schuman provided the destabilized GFPmyr reporter used here. Freda Miller provided the Tα1 tubulin promoter.
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The authors declare no competing financial interests.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Jeffery L. Twiss, Department of Biology, Drexel University, 3141 Chestnut Street, Stratton 118, Philadelphia, PA 19104. jeff.twiss{at}drexel.edu
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