About the Authors

Taulant Bacaj

Contributed equally to this work with: Taulant Bacaj, Dick Wu

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Dick Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Taulant Bacaj, Dick Wu

Affiliations Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Nancy Pritzker Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University Medical School, Stanford, California, United States of America

Jacqueline Burré

Current address: Weill Cornell Medical College, Appel Institute for Alzheimer’s Disease Research, Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute, 413 East 69th St, New York, New York, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Robert C. Malenka

Affiliation Nancy Pritzker Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University Medical School, Stanford, California, United States of America

Xinran Liu

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Thomas C. Südhof

tcs1@stanford.edu

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TB DW JB TCS. Performed the experiments: TB DW XL JB. Analyzed the data: TB DW XL JB TCS. Wrote the paper: TB DW XL RCM TCS.