Article Information
- Received September 20, 2012
- Revision received March 25, 2013
- Accepted April 30, 2013
- First published June 5, 2013.
- Version of record published June 5, 2013.
Author Information
- 1Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia 23298,
- 2Department of Biological Science, Inha University, Inchon, South Korea, 402-751,
- 3Department of Molecular Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas 75390, and
- 4Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Farm Research Campus, Ashburn, Virginia 20147
Author contributions
Author contributions: T.G., J.K., R.K., and Y.-J.Y. designed research; T.G., J.K., M.O., and Y.-J.Y. performed research; T.G., J.K., R.K., and Y.-J.Y. analyzed data; T.G., R.K., and Y.-J.Y. wrote the paper.
Disclosures
- Received September 20, 2012.
- Revision received March 25, 2013.
- Accepted April 30, 2013.
This work was supported by American Heart Association Grant 09SDG2150070 (Y.-J.Y.), NIH Grant 5R01DK083593 (T.G.), Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Farm Research Campus (R.K.) and Inha University (J.K.). We thank Drs. Ashrafi, Alkema, Beverly, and Sengupta and the Caenorhabditis Genetics Center for strains, Dr. Zimmer for microfluidic devices and Drs. Murakami and Ohshima for the daf-11 DNA construct. We thank Drs. Avery, Bettinger, Davies, and Amir for technical support and invaluable discussion.
The authors declare no competing financial interests.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Dr Young-Jai You, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Virginia Commonwealth University, 1220 East Broad Street, MMRB Building, Room 2046, Richmond, VA 23298-0614. yjyou{at}vcu.edu