About the Authors

Hai-Ying Shen

Contributed equally to this work with: Hai-Ying Shen, Paula M. Canas

Affiliation Molecular Neuropharmacology Lab, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Paula M. Canas

Contributed equally to this work with: Hai-Ying Shen, Paula M. Canas

Affiliation Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

Patricia Garcia-Sanz

Affiliation Instituto Cajal, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, and Centros de Investigación Biomédica en Red, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

Jing-Quan Lan

Affiliation Robert Stone Dow Neurobiology Laboratories, Legacy Research Institute, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Detlev Boison

Affiliation Robert Stone Dow Neurobiology Laboratories, Legacy Research Institute, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Rosario Moratalla

Affiliation Instituto Cajal, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, and Centros de Investigación Biomédica en Red, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

Rodrigo A. Cunha

Affiliations Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal, Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

Jiang-Fan Chen

chenjf@bu.edu

Affiliation Molecular Neuropharmacology Lab, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JFC RAC RM. Performed the experiments: HYS PC PG JQL. Analyzed the data: HYS PC PG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JFC RAC RM DB. Wrote the paper: HYS JFC RAC DB.