About the Authors

Burkhard Poeggeler

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, University of Luebeck, Luebeck, Germany

Kumar Sambamurti

Contributed equally to this work with: Kumar Sambamurti, Miguel A. Pappolla

sambak@musc.e (KS); pappolla@aol.com (MAP)

Affiliation Department of Neurosciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America

Sandra L. Siedlak

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

George Perry

Affiliation UTSA Neurosciences Institute and Department of Biology, College of Sciences, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Mark A. Smith

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Miguel A. Pappolla

Contributed equally to this work with: Kumar Sambamurti, Miguel A. Pappolla

sambak@musc.e (KS); pappolla@aol.com (MAP)

Affiliation Department of Neurosciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MAP. Performed the experiments: BP. Analyzed the data: BP KS GP MAS MAP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MAP. Wrote the paper: KS GP MAS MAP.