About the Authors

Guillermo A. Yudowski

Guillermo.yudowski@upr.edu

Affiliations Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, School of Medicine, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Institute of Neurobiology, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Olav Olsen

Affiliation Laboratory of Brain Development and Repair, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

Hillel Adesnik

Affiliation Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Kurt W. Marek

Affiliation NHLBI at National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

David S. Bredt

Affiliation Neuroscience at Johnson & Johnson, San Diego, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

David Bredt is the Global Head Discovery Neuroscience at Johnson & Johnson. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GAY OO HA KWM DSB. Performed the experiments: GAY HA KWM. Analyzed the data: GAY OO HA KWM DSB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: OO HA KWM. Wrote the paper: GAY OO DSB.