About the Authors

Tsung-Chang Sung

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

Zhijiang Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhijiang Chen, Sandrine Thuret

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

Sandrine Thuret

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhijiang Chen, Sandrine Thuret

Affiliations Clayton Foundation Laboratories for Peptide Biology, The Salk Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Centre for the Cellular Basis of Behaviour & Medical Research Council Centre for Neurodegeneration Research, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

Marçal Vilar

Affiliations Clayton Foundation Laboratories for Peptide Biology, The Salk Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Neurodegeneration Unit, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

Fred H. Gage

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

Roland Riek

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

Kuo-Fen Lee

klee@salk.edu

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

Conceived and designed the experiments: TS KFL. Performed the experiments: TS ZC ST. Analyzed the data: TS ZC FHG KFL ST. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MV RR. Wrote the paper: TS ZC FHG KFL.