Article Information
- Received March 9, 2014
- Revision received October 24, 2014
- Accepted November 18, 2014
- First published January 21, 2015.
- Version of record published January 21, 2015.
Author Information
- Yoav Shulman1,2,*,
- Alexandra Stavsky1,2,*,
- Tatiana Fedorova3,
- Dan Mikulincer1,
- Merav Atias1,
- Igal Radinsky1,
- Joy Kahn1,
- Inna Slutsky3, and
- Daniel Gitler1,2
- 1Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, and
- 2Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel, and
- 3Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, and Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, 69978 Tel Aviv, Israel
Author contributions
Author contributions: Y.S., A.S., I.S., and D.G. designed research; Y.S., A.S., T.F., D.M., M.A., I.R., and J.K. performed research; Y.S., A.S., T.F., D.M., M.A., J.K., I.S., and D.G. analyzed data; D.G. wrote the paper.
↵*Y.S. and A.S. contributed equally to this work.
Disclosures
- Received March 9, 2014.
- Revision received October 24, 2014.
- Accepted November 18, 2014.
This work was supported by the Israel Science Foundation (Grant 1427/12 to D.G.) and the European Research Council (Starting Grant 281403 to I.S.). We thank Hiromi Imamura for the kind gift from ATeam1.03 and ATeam1.03R122K/R126K, Atsushi Miyawaki for Venus, Thomas Kuner for AAV vectors encoding EGFP-Synapsin IIa and Synaptophysin I-EGFP, Jürgen Kleinschmidt for kindly sharing the AAV system, Fabio Benfenati for the C57BL6-backcrossed synapsin TKO mice, and Ilya Fleidervish for excellent expert advice and opinions.
The authors declare no competing financial interests.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Daniel Gitler, Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel. gitler{at}bgu.ac.il
