About the Authors

Jian Jiao

Affiliation Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease and Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Lauren D. Herl

Affiliations Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease and Departments of Medicine and of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Robert V. Farese Jr

Affiliations Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease and Departments of Medicine and of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Fen-Biao Gao

fen-biao.gao@umassmed.edu

Affiliations Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease and Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Departments of Neurology and Neurobiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RVFJ FBG. Performed the experiments: JJ LDH. Analyzed the data: JJ LDH RVFJ FBG. Wrote the paper: JJ RVFJ FBG.