About the Authors

Mark P. DeAndrade

Affiliations Interdisciplinary Program in Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Department of Neurology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Li Zhang

Affiliation Center for Neurodegeneration and Experimental Therapeutics, Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Atbin Doroodchi

Affiliation Center for Neurodegeneration and Experimental Therapeutics, Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Fumiaki Yokoi

Affiliation Department of Neurology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Chad C. Cheetham

Affiliation Center for Neurodegeneration and Experimental Therapeutics, Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Huan-Xin Chen

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Steven N. Roper

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

J. David Sweatt

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Yuqing Li

yuqing.li@neurology.ufl.edu

Affiliation Department of Neurology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MPD LZ JDS FY CCC HXC SNR YL. Performed the experiments: MPD LZ AD FY HXC YL. Analyzed the data: MPD LZ FY CCC HXC JDS YL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SNR JDS YL. Wrote the paper: MPD LZ AD FY CCC HXC SNR JDS YL.