About the Authors

Linxiang Yin

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Urology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Department of Microbiology and Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Geoffrey Masuyer

Contributed equally to this work with: Geoffrey Masuyer, Sicai Zhang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Current address: Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, University of Bath, United Kingdom

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

Sicai Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Geoffrey Masuyer, Sicai Zhang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Urology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Department of Microbiology and Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jie Zhang

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Urology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Department of Microbiology and Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Shin-Ichiro Miyashita

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Urology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Department of Microbiology and Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

David Burgin

Roles Resources

Affiliation Ipsen Bioinnovation, Abingdon, United Kingdom

Laura Lovelock

Roles Resources

Affiliation Ipsen Bioinnovation, Abingdon, United Kingdom

Shu-Fen Coker

Roles Resources

Affiliation Ipsen Bioinnovation, Abingdon, United Kingdom

Tian-min Fu

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Pål Stenmark

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft

stenmark@dbb.su.se (PS); min.dong@childrens.harvard.edu (MD)

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Experimental Medical Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Min Dong

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

stenmark@dbb.su.se (PS); min.dong@childrens.harvard.edu (MD)

Affiliation Department of Urology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Department of Microbiology and Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy, and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: A patent application on enhancing botulinum neurotoxin binding to neurons via modulating LBLs has been filed by Boston Children’s Hospital, with SZ, PS, and MD as inventors. The project was partly funded by an industry-sponsored research grant from Ipsen, and DB, LL, and SC are employees of Ipsen Inc.