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Acknowledgments

We are grateful to Dr. D. McElroy and Dr. R. Wu for providing the plasmid pAct1-F. We thank Dr. C. Ishii for the gift of the Ae. cylindrica cell line. We also thank Dr. K. Tsunewaki and Dr.
J.C. Sanford for their valuable suggestions.


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