Article Information
- Received March 23, 2011
- Revision received March 8, 2012
- Accepted March 20, 2012
- First published June 27, 2012.
- Version of record published June 27, 2012.
Author Information
- Marton Lorant Toth1,
- Ilija Melentijevic1,
- Leena Shah1,
- Aatish Bhatia1,
- Kevin Lu1,
- Amish Talwar1,
- Haaris Naji1,
- Carolina Ibanez-Ventoso1,
- Piya Ghose2,
- Angela Jevince3,
- Jian Xue1,
- Laura A. Herndon3,
- Gyan Bhanot1,
- Chris Rongo2,
- David H. Hall3, and
- Monica Driscoll1
- 1Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Nelson Biological Laboratories, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854,
- 2Department of Genetics, Waksman Institute, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, and
- 3Center for C. elegans Anatomy, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, 10461
Author contributions
Author contributions: M.L.T., D.H.H., and M.D. designed research; M.L.T., I.M., L.S., K.L., A.T., H.N., A.J., and D.H.H. performed research; M.L.T., C.I.-V., P.G., L.A.H., C.R., D.H.H., and J.X. contributed unpublished reagents/analytic tools; M.L.T., A.B., K.L., H.N., G.B., and D.H.H. analyzed data; M.L.T., A.B., D.H.H., and M.D. wrote the paper.
Disclosures
- Received March 23, 2011.
- Revision received March 8, 2012.
- Accepted March 20, 2012.
This work was supported by grants from the New Jersey Commission on Spinal Cord Research (M.T. and M.D.) and the National Institutes of Health (AG024882; NS034435, M.D.; OD010943; RFK-IDDRC Grant HD071593, D.H.H.). M.T.T. is currently supported by an American Federation of Aging Research Postdoctoral Fellowship. We thank the Caenorhabditis Genetic Center, supported by NIH NCRR, for providing strains. We also thank S. Shaham for reagents, B. Grant, M. Barr, and E. Vayndorf for critical reading of this manuscript and N. Hall for statistical help for synaptic vesicle data analysis.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Monica Driscoll, Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 604 Allison Road, Nelson Biological Laboratories A232, Piscataway, NJ 08854. driscoll{at}biology.rutgers.edu
