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- Received February 28, 2012
- Revision received June 25, 2012
- Accepted July 8, 2012
- First published August 22, 2012.
- Version of record published August 22, 2012.
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Author contributions
Author contributions: Y.L., H.X., T.-T.C., H.J., B.B., C.P.M., N.P., R.A., and A.L.D.B. designed research; Y.L., H.X., T.-T.C., H.J., B.B., C.P.M., N.P., and R.A. performed research; W.V.C. and T.M. contributed unpublished reagents/analytic tools; Y.L., H.X., T.-T.C., H.J., B.B., C.P.M., N.P., R.A., and A.L.D.B. analyzed data; Y.L., T.-T.C., C.P.M., N.P., W.V.C., T.M., and A.L.D.B. wrote the paper.
Disclosures
- Received February 28, 2012.
- Revision received June 25, 2012.
- Accepted July 8, 2012.
This work was supported by NIH–NINDS Grants R01 NS038752 (A.L.D.B.) and R01 NS043915 (T.M.). We thank Dr. I. Lorena Arancibia-Cárcamo and Dr. Joseph T. Kitler (University College of London, London, UK) for the EGPP-γ2 plasmid. We also thank Dr. Peter Seeburg and Dr. Martin Schwarz (Max Planck Institute, Heidelberg, Germany) for the cMycPcdh-α4 plasmid and Dr. Marcus Frank (University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany) for Pcdh-γC3-EGFP plasmid. We also thank Dr. Sean Christie (Micro Video Instruments, Inc., Avon, MA) for his help with TIRF microscopy.
The authors declare no competing financial interests.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Angel L. De Blas, Department of Physiology and Neurobiology, University of Connecticut, 75 North Eagleville Road, U-3156, Storrs, CT 06269-3156. angel.deblas{at}uconn.edu
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