About the Authors

Anna Bobrowska

Affiliation Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

Gizem Donmez

Current address: Department of Neuroscience, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Paul F. Glenn Laboratory and Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Andreas Weiss

Affiliation Neuroscience Discovery, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Basel, Switzerland

Leonard Guarente

Affiliation Paul F. Glenn Laboratory and Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Gillian Bates

gillian.bates@kcl.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: AW is an employee of Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, and GD received a fellowship from Johnson and Johnson. The CHDI Foundation is a privately-funded not-for-profit biomedical research organization exclusively dedicated to discovering and developing therapeutics that slow the progression of Huntington's disease. BioFocus, Cerep, Cychem and Pharmidex provided reagents and data through a fee-for-service agreement for the CHDI Foundation. This declaration does not alter the authors' adherence to all PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AB AW GPB. Performed the experiments: AB AW. Analyzed the data: AB AW GPB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GD AW LG GPB. Wrote the paper: AB GPB. Proofread the manuscript: GD AW LG.