About the Authors

Marçal Vilar

Contributed equally to this work with: Marçal Vilar, Tsung-Chang Sung

klee@salk.edu (K.-F.L.); riek@salk.edu (R.R.); mvilar@isciii.es (M.V.)

Affiliations Clayton Foundation Laboratories for Peptide Biology, The Salk Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Neurodegeneration Unit, Chronic Disease Program, Spanish Institute of Health Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

Tsung-Chang Sung

Contributed equally to this work with: Marçal Vilar, Tsung-Chang Sung

Affiliation Clayton Foundation Laboratories for Peptide Biology, The Salk Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Zhijiang Chen

Affiliation Clayton Foundation Laboratories for Peptide Biology, The Salk Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Irmina García-Carpio

Affiliation Neurodegeneration Unit, Chronic Disease Program, Spanish Institute of Health Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

Eva M. Fernandez

Affiliation Neurodegeneration Unit, Chronic Disease Program, Spanish Institute of Health Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

Jiqing Xu

Affiliation Clayton Foundation Laboratories for Peptide Biology, The Salk Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Roland Riek

klee@salk.edu (K.-F.L.); riek@salk.edu (R.R.); mvilar@isciii.es (M.V.)

Affiliations Clayton Foundation Laboratories for Peptide Biology, The Salk Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Laboratory for Physical Chemistry, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Kuo-Fen Lee

klee@salk.edu (K.-F.L.); riek@salk.edu (R.R.); mvilar@isciii.es (M.V.)

Affiliation Clayton Foundation Laboratories for Peptide Biology, The Salk Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

The author(s) have made the following declarations about their contributions: Conceived and designed the experiments: MV TCS ZC RR KFL. Performed the experiments: MV TCS ZC IGC EF JX RR KFL. Analyzed the data: MV TCS ZC RR KFL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MV TCS ZC IGC EF JX RR KFL. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: MV TCS ZC RR KFL.