Article Information
- Received June 29, 2015
- Revision received September 30, 2015
- Accepted October 7, 2015
- First published November 11, 2015.
- Version of record published November 11, 2015.
Author Information
- 1Department of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095,
- 2Jules Stein Eye Institute and Department of Ophthalmology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, and
- 3Laboratory of Brain Development and Repair, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York 10065
Author contributions
Author contributions: M.E.V., Y.Y., M.T.-L., and A.S. designed research; M.E.V. and Y.Y. performed research; M.E.V., Y.Y., M.T.-L., and A.S. analyzed data; M.E.V. and A.S. wrote the paper.
Disclosures
- Received June 29, 2015.
- Revision received September 30, 2015.
- Accepted October 7, 2015.
This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health (Grant 1R01NS083813 to M.T.-L. and Grant R01AR064582 to A.S.). M.E.V. was supported by the EyeSTAR program from the UCLA Jules Stein Eye Institute. Y.Y. was supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and is currently supported by the International Human Frontier Science Program Organization. We thank Sean Wolfson for help with subcloning; Alaa Koleilat for technical assistance; Luisa Iruela-Arispe for 2-photon microscope access; and Hirohito Shimizu, Robert Esterberg, David Raible, and Koichi Kawakami for plasmids and fish lines.
The authors declare no competing financial interests.
- Correspondence should be addressed to either Mauricio Enrique Vargas or Alvaro Sagasti, Department of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, University of California, 621 Charles E. Young Dr. S., Los Angeles, CA 90095, m.vargas{at}jsei.ucla.edu or sagasti{at}mcdb.ucla.edu
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