About the Authors

Erin K. Butler

Contributed equally to this work with: Erin K. Butler, Aaron Voigt

Affiliations Department of Neurology, University Medical Center, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany, Department of Neurodegeneration and Restorative Research, Center Molecular Physiology of the Brain (CMPB), Georg-August University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, Göttingen Graduate School for Neurosciences and Molecular Biology (GGNB), Göttingen, Germany

Aaron Voigt

Contributed equally to this work with: Erin K. Butler, Aaron Voigt

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University Medical Center, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

A. Kathrin Lutz

Affiliation Neurobiochemistry, Adolf-Butenandt-Institute, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany

Jane P. Toegel

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University Medical Center, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

Ellen Gerhardt

Affiliation Department of Neurodegeneration and Restorative Research, Center Molecular Physiology of the Brain (CMPB), Georg-August University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Peter Karsten

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University Medical Center, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

Björn Falkenburger

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University Medical Center, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

Andrea Reinartz

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University Medical Center, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

Konstanze F. Winklhofer

Affiliations Neurobiochemistry, Adolf-Butenandt-Institute, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Munich, Germany

Jörg B. Schulz

jschulz@ukaachen.de

Affiliations Department of Neurology, University Medical Center, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany, Jülich-Aachen Research Alliance (JARA) Brain, Jülich/Aachen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EKB AV KFW JBS. Performed the experiments: EKB EG AKL JPT PK BF AR. Analyzed the data: EKB AV KFW JBS. Wrote the paper: EKB AV JBS.