Article Information
- Received September 17, 2015
- Revision received May 25, 2016
- Accepted May 26, 2016
- First published July 6, 2016.
- Version of record published July 6, 2016.
Author Information
- Cameron L. Prigge1,
- Po-Ting Yeh2,
- Nan-Fu Liou2,
- Chi-Chan Lee2,
- Shih-Feng You2,
- Lei-Lei Liu1,
- David S. McNeill3,
- Kylie S. Chew3,
- Samer Hattar3,
- Shih-Kuo Chen2,4, and
- Dao-Qi Zhang1
- 1Eye Research Institute, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan 48309,
- 2Department of Life Science, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan 10617,
- 3Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, and
- 4Genome and Systems Biology Degree Program, National Taiwan University and Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan 10617
Author contributions
Author contributions: C.L.P., S.-K.C., and D.-Q.Z. designed research; C.L.P., P.-T.Y., N.-F.L., C.-C.L., S.-F.Y., L.-L.L., S.-K.C., and D.-Q.Z. performed research; D.S.M., K.S.C., and S.H. contributed unpublished reagents/analytic tools; C.L.P., P.-T.Y., N.-F.L., C.-C.L., S.-F.Y., and S.-K.C. analyzed data; C.L.P., S.-K.C., and D.-Q.Z. wrote the paper.
Disclosures
- Received September 17, 2015.
- Revision received May 25, 2016.
- Accepted May 26, 2016.
This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health (Grant R01 EY022640 to D.-Q.Z.), Oakland University Provost's Graduate Student Research Awards (C.L.P.), and the Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology (Grant MOST-103-2321-B-002-045 to S.-K.C.). We thank Drs. Frank Giblin, Douglas McMahon, Gary Pickard, and Barry Winkler and the anonymous reviewers for their critical comments; Dr. Paulo Kofuji for kindly providing transgenic mice for our research; and the Technology Commons College of Life Science at National Taiwan University for technical assistance with confocal laser scanning microscopy.
The authors declare no competing financial interests.
- Correspondence should be addressed to either of the following: Dr. Dao-Qi Zhang, Eye Research Institute, Oakland University, 423 Dodge Hall, Rochester, MI 48309, zhang{at}oakland.edu; or Dr. Shih-Kuo Chen, Department of Life Science, National Taiwan University, No. 1 Sec. 4 Roosevelt Road, Taipei, Taiwan 10617, alenskchen{at}ntu.edu.tw
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