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- Received September 28, 2011
- Revision received February 15, 2012
- Accepted February 25, 2012
- First published April 11, 2012.
- Version of record published April 11, 2012.
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Author contributions: M.R.C.B., J.G., J.M., and A.D. designed research; M.R.C.B., J.G., S.A.N., E.X.R., S.Y.E., and Y.S. performed research; M.R.C.B., J.G., and S.A.N. analyzed data; M.R.C.B., J.G., J.M., and A.D. wrote the paper.
Disclosures
- Received September 28, 2011.
- Revision received February 15, 2012.
- Accepted February 25, 2012.
This work was supported by NIH Grants NS070053, NS078007, and NS065053 (J.M., A.D.), and NS065615 (M.R.C.B.), as well as the Hope Center for Neurological Disorders (M.R.C.B.) and the Craig H. Neilson Foundation (J.M.). We thank all members of their laboratories for critical discussion and suggestions. In particular, we thank Drs. Bradley Miller and Craig Press for helpful advice, and Gurpreet Seehra for her contributions to the Drosophila screen. We are grateful to Drs. Wesley Grueber, Hugo Bellen, Craig Montell, Joe O'Tousa, Tadashi Uemura, and John Carlson for providing fly stocks and reagents used in this work, Kelli Simburger for cloning assistance, Li-Wei Chang for bioinformatics, and Wandy Beatty for preparation of EM samples. We would also like to thank the Bloomington Stock Center and the Vienna Drosophila RNAi Center for providing numerous stocks.
The authors declare no competing financial interests.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Aaron DiAntonio, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, 660 South Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110. diantonio{at}wustl.edu
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