About the Authors

Quan-Guang Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Quan-Guang Zhang, Melissa D. Laird

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Institute of Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Georgia Health Sciences University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Melissa D. Laird

Contributed equally to this work with: Quan-Guang Zhang, Melissa D. Laird

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Georgia Health Sciences University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Dong Han

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Institute of Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Georgia Health Sciences University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Khoi Nguyen

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Institute of Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Georgia Health Sciences University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Erin Scott

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Institute of Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Georgia Health Sciences University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Yan Dong

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Institute of Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Georgia Health Sciences University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Krishnan M. Dhandapani

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Georgia Health Sciences University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Darrell W. Brann

dbrann@georgiahealth.edu

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Institute of Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Georgia Health Sciences University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DWB KMD QZ. Performed the experiments: QZ ML DH KN ES YD. Analyzed the data: QZ DWB KMD KN ES YD. Wrote the paper: DWB QZ.