About the Authors

Alessia P. M. Barbagallo

Contributed equally to this work with: Alessia P. M. Barbagallo, Zilai Wang

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Zilai Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Alessia P. M. Barbagallo, Zilai Wang

Affiliation Huffington Center on Aging, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Hui Zheng

Affiliation Huffington Center on Aging, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Luciano D'Adamio

luciano.dadamio@einstein.yu.edu

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Institute of Neurobiology and Molecular Medicine, CNR, Rome, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LD. Performed the experiments: APB ZW LD. Analyzed the data: APB ZW HZ LD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: APB ZW HZ LD. Wrote the paper: LD ZW HZ.