About the Authors

Guilian Xu

xugl@ufl.edu (GX); drb1@ufl.edu (DB)

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, Santa Fe Health Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Stanley M. Stevens Jr

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Microbiology and Molecular Biology, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Firas Kobiessy

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

Hilda Brown

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, Santa Fe Health Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Scott McClung

Current address: Scientific Instruments Division, ThermoFisher, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Interdisciplinary Center of Biotechnology Research (ICBR), University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Mark S. Gold

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

David R. Borchelt

xugl@ufl.edu (GX); drb1@ufl.edu (DB)

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, Santa Fe Health Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GX DRB. Performed the experiments: GX HB. Analyzed the data: GX SMS FK DRB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FK SM MSG. Wrote the paper: GX DRB.