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19 December 2006

In the acknowledgments section of the publication, first sentence, the name G. Dahl is removed. This changes the acknowledgments section from:

We thank Dr. S. Lukyanov for the kind gift of pEGFP-Panx1 plasmid, Dr. V. Slepak for expert advice in protein purification and critical reading of the manuscript, Dr. R.J. Cenedella for consultation on the lens protein fractionation, and Drs. G. Dahl, A. LaGier and V. Narayanan for the critical reading of the manuscript. This study was supported by NIH grants R01-EY14232 (V.S.), a Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) Career Development Award (V.S.), an unrestricted grant to the Department of Ophthalmology from RPB, and an unrestricted grant P30-EY014801 to the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute.

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We thank Dr. S. Lukyanov for the kind gift of pEGFP-Panx1 plasmid, Dr. V. Slepak for expert advice in protein purification and critical reading of the manuscript, Dr. R.J. Cenedella for consultation on the lens protein fractionation, and Drs. A. LaGier and V. Narayanan for the critical reading of the manuscript. This study was supported by NIH grants R01-EY14232 (V.S.), a Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) Career Development Award (V.S.), an unrestricted grant to the Department of Ophthalmology from RPB, and an unrestricted grant P30-EY014801 to the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute.