About the Authors

Darcy M. Kaiser

Contributed equally to this work with: Darcy M. Kaiser, Moulinath Acharya, Patricia L. A. Leighton

Affiliations Centre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Moulinath Acharya

Contributed equally to this work with: Darcy M. Kaiser, Moulinath Acharya, Patricia L. A. Leighton

Current address: National Institute of Biomedical Genomics, Kalyani, India

Affiliations Centre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Patricia L. A. Leighton

Contributed equally to this work with: Darcy M. Kaiser, Moulinath Acharya, Patricia L. A. Leighton

Affiliations Centre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Hao Wang

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Nathalie Daude

Affiliation Centre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Serene Wohlgemuth

Affiliation Centre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Beipei Shi

Affiliation Centre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

W. Ted Allison

ted.allison@ualberta.ca

Affiliations Centre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Department of Medical Genetics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WTA. Performed the experiments: DK MA PLAL HW ND SW WTA. Analyzed the data: DK MA PLAL WTA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BS. Wrote the paper: WTA DK PLAL. Edited the paper: DMK MA PLAL HW ND SW WTA BS.