About the Authors

Rubén Hervás

Contributed equally to this work with: Rubén Hervás, Liying Li

Affiliations Instituto Cajal, IC-CSIC, Madrid, Spain, Instituto Madrileño de Estudios Avanzados en Nanociencia (IMDEA-Nanociencia), Madrid, Spain

Liying Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Rubén Hervás, Liying Li

Affiliations Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Amitabha Majumdar

Affiliations Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America, National Brain Research Centre, Manesar, Guragon, Haryana, India

María del Carmen Fernández-Ramírez

Affiliations Instituto Cajal, IC-CSIC, Madrid, Spain, Instituto Madrileño de Estudios Avanzados en Nanociencia (IMDEA-Nanociencia), Madrid, Spain

Jay R. Unruh

Affiliation Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

Brian D. Slaughter

Affiliation Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

Albert Galera-Prat

Affiliations Instituto Cajal, IC-CSIC, Madrid, Spain, Instituto Madrileño de Estudios Avanzados en Nanociencia (IMDEA-Nanociencia), Madrid, Spain

Elena Santana

Affiliation Instituto Cajal, IC-CSIC, Madrid, Spain

Mari Suzuki

Affiliation Department of Degenerative Neurological Diseases, National Institute of Neuroscience, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Kodaira, Tokyo, Japan

Yoshitaka Nagai

Affiliations Department of Degenerative Neurological Diseases, National Institute of Neuroscience, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Kodaira, Tokyo, Japan, Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Agency, Saitama, Japan

Marta Bruix

Affiliation Instituto de Química-Física Rocasolano, IQFR-CSIC, Madrid, Spain

Sergio Casas-Tintó

Affiliation Instituto Cajal, IC-CSIC, Madrid, Spain

Margarita Menéndez

Affiliations Instituto de Química-Física Rocasolano, IQFR-CSIC, Madrid, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red sobre Enfermedades Respiratorias, Madrid, Spain

Douglas V. Laurents

Affiliation Instituto de Química-Física Rocasolano, IQFR-CSIC, Madrid, Spain

Kausik Si

mcarrion@cajal.csic.es (MCV); KSI@stowers.org (KS)

Affiliations Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Mariano Carrión-Vázquez

mcarrion@cajal.csic.es (MCV); KSI@stowers.org (KS)

Affiliations Instituto Cajal, IC-CSIC, Madrid, Spain, Instituto Madrileño de Estudios Avanzados en Nanociencia (IMDEA-Nanociencia), Madrid, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors declare competing financial interest: MCV and RH are co-inventors on an international patent application (reference EP15382176.4) covering the results contained in this article. Any potential income generated by exploitation of the patent rights and received by their employer, the CSIC, shall be shared with these authors according to Spanish law and the regulations of the CSIC.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MCV KS. Performed the experiments: RH LL AM MdCFR JU BS AGP ES MS DVL MM. Analyzed the data: RH LL AM MdCFR JU BS AGP ES MS DVL MM MB SCT YN. Wrote the paper: MCV KS RH.