About the Authors
- Stefano Sechi
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Affiliation Istituto di Biologia e Patologia Molecolari del CNR, Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università Sapienza di Roma, Roma, Italy
- Gianni Colotti
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Contributed equally to this work with: Gianni Colotti, Giorgio Belloni, Vincenzo Mattei
Affiliation Istituto di Biologia e Patologia Molecolari del CNR, Dipartimento di Scienze Biochimiche, Università di Roma Sapienza, Roma, Italy
- Giorgio Belloni
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Contributed equally to this work with: Gianni Colotti, Giorgio Belloni, Vincenzo Mattei
Affiliation Istituto di Biologia e Patologia Molecolari del CNR, Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università Sapienza di Roma, Roma, Italy
- Vincenzo Mattei
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Contributed equally to this work with: Gianni Colotti, Giorgio Belloni, Vincenzo Mattei
Affiliation Laboratory of Experimental and Environmental Pathology, Sabina Universitas, Rieti, Italy
- Anna Frappaolo
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Affiliation Istituto di Biologia e Patologia Molecolari del CNR, Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università Sapienza di Roma, Roma, Italy
- Grazia D. Raffa
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Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università Sapienza di Roma, Roma, Italy
- Margaret T. Fuller
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Affiliation Departments of Developmental Biology and Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America
- Maria Grazia Giansanti
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* E-mail: mariagrazia.giansanti@uniroma1.it
Affiliation Istituto di Biologia e Patologia Molecolari del CNR, Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università Sapienza di Roma, Roma, Italy
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: MGG. Performed the experiments: SS GB GC VM GDR AF MGG. Analyzed the data: MGG GC MTF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GC MTF. Wrote the paper: MGG. Performed the genetic mapping experiments: GB SS. Performed the molecular biology experiments aimed at constructing the GFP and RFP transgenes and GOLPH3 mutant constructs: SS. Developed the experiments aimed at constructing GST-GOLPH3 proteins, expressing and purifying GST-tagged GOLPH3 to raise anti-GOLPH3 antibodies: SS GC. Performed the GST pull down analysis: GDR SS. Performed the Co-IP and Western Blotting experiments: VM SS. Carried out genetic analysis, immunofluorescence and live imaging experiments: SS AF GB MGG.