Article Information
- Received May 26, 2012
- Revision received July 12, 2012
- Accepted July 15, 2012
- First published September 12, 2012.
- Version of record published September 12, 2012.
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Author contributions
Author contributions: H.T., Y.I., and S.S. designed research; H.T., M.K., and S.H. performed research; H.T., M.K., S.H., and Y.I. contributed unpublished reagents/analytic tools; H.T. and M.K. analyzed data; H.T. and S.S. wrote the paper.
Disclosures
- Received May 26, 2012.
- Revision received July 12, 2012.
- Accepted July 15, 2012.
This work was supported by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (No. 22700396 to H.T. and No. 20300128 to S.S.) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan, the CREST program of the Japan Science and Technology Agency, and the Global Centers of Excellence Program at the Nara Institute of Science and Technology (Frontier Biosciences: strategies for survival and adaptation in a changing global environment), MEXT, Japan. We thank Rie Kurata [Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST)] for LS-MS/MS and Edman sequencing, Yoshie Tawara (NAIST) for plasmid construction, Dr. Honda Naoki (Kyoto University) for analyzing the kinetic parameters, and Dr. Ian Smith (NAIST) and Dr. Robert Pawlak (University of Leicester) for their valuable comments.
The authors declare no competing financial interests.
- Correspondence should be addressed to either Hideki Tamura or Sadao Shiosaka, Laboratory of Functional Neuroscience, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5 Takayama, Ikoma, Nara 630-0192, Japan. h-tamura{at}bs.naist.jp or sshiosak{at}bs.naist.jp
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