About the Authors

Hanqian Mao

Contributed equally to this work with: Hanqian Mao, John J. McMahon

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

John J. McMahon

Contributed equally to this work with: Hanqian Mao, John J. McMahon

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Yi-Hsuan Tsai

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Zefeng Wang

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Debra L. Silver

debra.silver@duke.edu

Affiliations Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Cell Biology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Neurobiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have no conflicts of interest.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HM JJM DLS. Performed the experiments: HM JJM DLS. Analyzed the data: HM JJM YHT ZW DLS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HM JJM ZW DLS. Wrote the paper: HM JJM ZW DLS.