About the Authors

Cyrus Bett

Affiliation Departments of Pathology and Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Shivanjali Joshi-Barr

Affiliation Departments of Pathology and Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Melanie Lucero

Affiliation Departments of Pathology and Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Margarita Trejo

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Pawel Liberski

Affiliation Department of Molecular Pathology and Neuropathology, Medical University, Lodz, Poland

Jeffery W. Kelly

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Eliezer Masliah

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Christina J. Sigurdson

csigurdson@ucsd.edu

Affiliations Departments of Pathology and Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, University of California, Davis, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CB CJS. Performed the experiments: CB SJB ML MT PL CJS. Analyzed the data: CB SJB MT EM JWK PL CJS. Wrote the paper: CB CJS.