About the Authors

Luis Ojeda

Contributed equally to this work with: Luis Ojeda, Junling Gao

Current address: Huffington Center on Aging, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University Of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Junling Gao

Contributed equally to this work with: Luis Ojeda, Junling Gao

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University Of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Kristopher G. Hooten

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Enyin Wang

Affiliations Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University Of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, West China School of Preclinical and Forensic Medicine, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Jason R. Thonhoff

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University Of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Tiffany J. Dunn

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University Of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Tianyan Gao

Affiliation Markey Cancer Center and Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Ping Wu

piwu@utmb.edu

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University Of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LO JG TG PW. Performed the experiments: LO JG JRT KGH EW TJD PW. Analyzed the data: LO JG KGH EW PW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TG. Wrote the paper: LO JG PW. Revised manuscript: LO JG EW JRT KGH TG PW.