The short coiled-coil domain-containing protein UNC-69 cooperates with UNC-76 to regulate axonal outgrowth and normal presynaptic organization in Caenorhabditis elegans

Cheng-Wen Su^1,2* , Suzanne Tharin^3,4,10* , Yishi Jin⁵ , Bruce Wightman⁶ , Mona Spector⁴ , David Meili^1,7,11 , Nancy Tsung^8,12 , Christa Rhiner^1,2 , Dimitris Bourikas^2,7 , Esther Stoeckli^2,7 , Gian Garriga⁹ , H Robert Horvitz⁸ and Michael O Hengartner^1,2

¹  Institute for Molecular Biology, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland

²  Neuroscience Center Zurich, ETH and University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland

³  Program in Genetics, SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA

⁴  Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724, USA

⁵  Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Sinsheimer Laboratories, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

⁶  Biology Department, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA 18104, USA

⁷  Zoological Institute, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland

⁸  Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

⁹  Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

¹⁰  Current address: Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA

¹¹  Current address: Abteilung für Klinische Chemie und Biochemie, Universitäts-Kinderklinik, Steinwiesstrasse 75, CH-8032 Zürich, Switzerland

¹²  Current address: Clinigen, Inc., 400 W. Cummings Park #5700, Woburn, MA 01801, USA