About the Authors

Bangfu Zhu

Contributed equally to this work with: Bangfu Zhu, Jenny A Pennack

Affiliation Neurodevelopment Group, School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Jenny A Pennack

Contributed equally to this work with: Bangfu Zhu, Jenny A Pennack

Affiliation Neurodevelopment Group, School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Peter McQuilton

Affiliations Neurodevelopment Group, School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom , Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Manuel G Forero

Affiliation Neurodevelopment Group, School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Kenji Mizuguchi

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom , Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom , National Institute of Biomedical Innovation, Osaka, Japan

Ben Sutcliffe

Affiliation Neurodevelopment Group, School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Chun-Jing Gu

Affiliation Neurodevelopment Group, School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Janine C Fenton

Affiliation Neurodevelopment Group, School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Alicia Hidalgo

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: a.hidalgo@bham.ac.uk

Affiliation Neurodevelopment Group, School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

BZ, PM, KM, and AH conceived and designed the experiments. BZ, JAP, PM, BS, C-JG, JCF, and AH performed the experiments. BZ, JAP, PM, MGF, KM, BS, and AH analyzed the data. MGF contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. AH wrote the paper.