About the Authors

Misol Ahn

Current address: Department of Pathology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Affiliation Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Sina Ghaemmaghami

Affiliations Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Yong Huang

Affiliation Department of Biopharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Puay-Wah Phuan

Current address: Department of Nephrology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Barnaby C. H. May

Current address: Mesynthes Ltd., Lower Hutt, New Zealand

Affiliations Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Kurt Giles

Affiliations Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Stephen J. DeArmond

Affiliations Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Pathology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Stanley B. Prusiner

stanley@ind.ucsf.edu.

Affiliations Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MA SG P-WP BCHM KG SBP. Performed the experiments: MA YH P-WP. Analyzed the data: MA SG KG SJD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SBP. Wrote the paper: MA SG KG SBP.