About the Authors

Yougen Zhan

Contributed equally to this work with: Yougen Zhan, Nadia Y. Melian

Current address: Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Centre for Research in Neuroscience, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Nadia Y. Melian

Contributed equally to this work with: Yougen Zhan, Nadia Y. Melian

Affiliation Centre for Research in Neuroscience, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Mario Pantoja

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Nicola Haines

Affiliation Centre for Research in Neuroscience, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Hannele Ruohola-Baker

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Charles W. Bourque

Affiliation Centre for Research in Neuroscience, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Yong Rao

Affiliation Centre for Research in Neuroscience, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Salvatore Carbonetto

sal.carbonetto@mcgill.ca

Affiliation Centre for Research in Neuroscience, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YZ NYM CB YR SC. Performed the experiments: YZ NYM MP CB. Analyzed the data: YZ NYM MP NH HRB CB YR SC. Wrote the paper: YZ NYM NH SC.