Article Information
- Received December 30, 2013
- Revision received April 8, 2014
- Accepted April 18, 2014
- First published May 28, 2014.
- Version of record published May 28, 2014.
Author Information
- Jing Tang1,2,3,
- Jacque P.K. Ip1,2,3,
- Tao Ye1,2,3,
- Yu-Pong Ng1,2,3,
- Wing-Ho Yung4,
- Zhenguo Wu1,2,3,
- Weiqun Fang1,2,3,
- Amy K.Y. Fu1,2,3, and
- Nancy Y. Ip1,2,3
- 1Division of Life Science,
- 2State Key Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience, and
- 3Molecular Neuroscience Center, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China, and
- 4School of Biomedical Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong, China
Author contributions
Author contributions: J.T., J.P.K.I., T.Y., W.-H.Y., A.K.Y.F., and N.Y.I. designed research; J.T., J.P.K.I., T.Y., W.-H.Y., and W.F. performed research; Y.-P.N., Z.W., and N.Y.I. contributed unpublished reagents/analytic tools; J.T., J.P.K.I., T.Y., W.-H.Y., W.F., A.K.Y.F., and N.Y.I. analyzed data; J.T., J.P.K.I., A.K.Y.F., and N.Y.I. wrote the paper.
Disclosures
- Received December 30, 2013.
- Revision received April 8, 2014.
- Accepted April 18, 2014.
The authors declare no competing financial interests.
This work was supported by the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong SAR (Grants HKUST660810, HKUST660711, HKUST661111, HKUST661212, and HKUST660213), the National Key Basic Research Program of China (Grant 2013CB530900), the Theme-based Research Scheme of the University Grants Committee (Grant T13-607/12-R), the Innovation and Technology Fund for State Key Laboratory (Grant ITCPT/17-9), the Shenzhen Peacock Plan, and the S.H. Ho Foundation. We thank Cara Kwong, Busma Butt, Wanting Zhong, and William Chau for excellent technical assistance; other members of the Ip laboratory, in particular Dr. Lei Shi, for helpful discussions; and Xuemin Zhang and Weihua Li (National Center of Biomedical Analysis) for providing help in mass spectrometry analysis.
- Correspondence should be addressed to either Amy K.Y. Fu or Nancy Y. Ip, Division of Life Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong, China, boip{at}ust.hk or boamy{at}ust.hk
