About the Authors

Christian Schön

Affiliations Department of Translational Brain Research, DZNE – German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Munich, Germany, Center for Neuropathology, Ludwig-Maximilian-University, Munich, Germany

Nadine A. Hoffmann

Affiliations Department of Translational Brain Research, DZNE – German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Munich, Germany, Center for Neuropathology, Ludwig-Maximilian-University, Munich, Germany

Simon M. Ochs

Affiliation Department of Translational Brain Research, DZNE – German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Munich, Germany

Steffen Burgold

Affiliations Department of Translational Brain Research, DZNE – German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Munich, Germany, Center for Neuropathology, Ludwig-Maximilian-University, Munich, Germany

Severin Filser

Affiliation Department of Translational Brain Research, DZNE – German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Munich, Germany

Sonja Steinbach

Affiliation Department of Translational Brain Research, DZNE – German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Munich, Germany

Mathias W. Seeliger

Affiliation Division of Ocular Neurodegeneration, Centre of Ophthalmology, Institute for Ophthalmic Research, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

Thomas Arzberger

Affiliation Center for Neuropathology, Ludwig-Maximilian-University, Munich, Germany

Michel Goedert

Affiliation Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Hans A. Kretzschmar

Affiliation Center for Neuropathology, Ludwig-Maximilian-University, Munich, Germany

Boris Schmidt

Affiliation Clemens Schöpf-Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

Jochen Herms

Jochen.Herms@med.uni-muenchen.de

Affiliation Department of Translational Brain Research, DZNE – German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Munich, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CS JH. Performed the experiments: CS NAH SMO SS. Analyzed the data: CS SB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MWS TA MG HAK BS JH. Wrote the paper: CS NAH SF MG JH.