About the Authors

Kang-Woo Lee

Affiliation Center for Neurodegenerative and Neuroimmunologic Diseases, Department of Neurology, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Xin Zhao

Affiliation Center for Neurodegenerative and Neuroimmunologic Diseases, Department of Neurology, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Joo-Young Im

Affiliation Center for Neurodegenerative and Neuroimmunologic Diseases, Department of Neurology, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Hilary Grosso

Affiliation Center for Neurodegenerative and Neuroimmunologic Diseases, Department of Neurology, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Won Hee Jang

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, College of Medicine, Inje University, Busan, Korea

Teresa W. Chan

Affiliation Center for Neurodegenerative and Neuroimmunologic Diseases, Department of Neurology, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Patricia K. Sonsalla

Affiliation Center for Neurodegenerative and Neuroimmunologic Diseases, Department of Neurology, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Dwight C. German

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Hidenori Ichijo

Affiliation Laboratory of Cell Signaling, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Eunsung Junn

Affiliation Center for Neurodegenerative and Neuroimmunologic Diseases, Department of Neurology, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

M. Maral Mouradian

Mouradian@umdnj.edu

Affiliation Center for Neurodegenerative and Neuroimmunologic Diseases, Department of Neurology, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EJ MMM. Performed the experiments: K-WL XZ J-YI HG WHJ TWC PKS DCG. Analyzed the data: K-WL WHJ PKS DCG EJ MMM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HI. Wrote the paper: K-WL DCG EJ MMM.