About the Authors

Yan Wang

Affiliation Center for Neuroscience, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China

Gabriele Loers

Affiliation Zentrum für Molekulare Neurobiologie Hamburg, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Hong-Chao Pan

Affiliation Center for Neuroscience, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China

Ricardo Gouveia

Affiliation Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal

Wei-Jiang Zhao

Affiliation Center for Neuroscience, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China

Yan-Qin Shen

Affiliation Center for Neuroscience, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China

Ralf Kleene

Affiliation Zentrum für Molekulare Neurobiologie Hamburg, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Julia Costa

Affiliation Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal

Melitta Schachner

schachner@stu.edu.cn

Affiliations Center for Neuroscience, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China, Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience and Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Rutgers University, 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: MS YW. Performed the experiments: YW HCP. Analyzed the data: YW GL MS YQS WJZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JC RG. Wrote the paper: MS GL RK.