About the Authors

Shira Knafo

Contributed equally to this work with: Shira Knafo, César Venero

jaesteban@cbm.uam.es (JAE), sknafo@cbm.uam.es (SK); cvenero@psi.uned.es (CV)

Affiliations Centro de Biología Molecular “Severo Ochoa,” Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)/Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Instituto Cajal (CSIC), Centro de Tecnología Biomédica, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, and Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (CIBERNED), Madrid, Spain

César Venero

Contributed equally to this work with: Shira Knafo, César Venero

jaesteban@cbm.uam.es (JAE), sknafo@cbm.uam.es (SK); cvenero@psi.uned.es (CV)

Affiliation Department of Psychobiology, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain

Cristina Sánchez-Puelles

Affiliation Centro de Biología Molecular “Severo Ochoa,” Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)/Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Inmaculada Pereda-Peréz

Affiliation Department of Psychobiology, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain

Ana Franco

Affiliation Centro Nacional Biotecnología (CSIC), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Carmen Sandi

Affiliation Brain Mind Institute, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland

Luz M. Suárez

Affiliations Instituto Cajal (CSIC), Centro de Tecnología Biomédica, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, and Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (CIBERNED), Madrid, Spain, Servicio de Neurobiología-Investigación, Hospital Ramón y Cajal, IRYCIS, Madrid, Spain

José M. Solís

Affiliation Servicio de Neurobiología-Investigación, Hospital Ramón y Cajal, IRYCIS, Madrid, Spain

Lidia Alonso-Nanclares

Affiliation Instituto Cajal (CSIC), Centro de Tecnología Biomédica, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, and Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (CIBERNED), Madrid, Spain

Eduardo D. Martín

Affiliation Departamento de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad de Castilla-la Mancha, Albacete, Spain

Paula Merino-Serrais

Affiliation Instituto Cajal (CSIC), Centro de Tecnología Biomédica, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, and Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (CIBERNED), Madrid, Spain

Erika Borcel

Affiliation Department of Psychobiology, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain

Shizhong Li

Affiliation Protein Laboratory, Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Yongshuo Chen

Affiliation Protein Laboratory, Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Juncal Gonzalez-Soriano

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain

Vladimir Berezin

Affiliation Protein Laboratory, Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Elisabeth Bock

Affiliation Protein Laboratory, Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Javier DeFelipe

Affiliation Instituto Cajal (CSIC), Centro de Tecnología Biomédica, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, and Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (CIBERNED), Madrid, Spain

José A. Esteban

jaesteban@cbm.uam.es (JAE), sknafo@cbm.uam.es (SK); cvenero@psi.uned.es (CV)

Affiliation Centro de Biología Molecular “Severo Ochoa,” Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)/Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts. E. Bock and V. Berezin are shareholders of ENKAM Pharmaceuticals A/S, which owns the FGL peptide (less than 0.01% shares each). Nevertheless, this does not alter our adherence to all the PLoS Biology policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

The author(s) have made the following declarations about their contributions: Conceived and designed the experiments: SK CV CS JD JAE. Performed the experiments: EB VB SK CV EB CCS IPP SL YC AF LAN JGS PMS LMS JMS EM. Analyzed the data: SK CV LAN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EB VB. Wrote the paper: SK CV JAE.