About the Authors

Melanie Vanessa Halbach

Affiliation Experimental Neurology, Dept. of Neurology, Goethe University Medical School, Theodor Stern Kai 7, 60590 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Tanja Stehning

Affiliation Experimental Neurology, Dept. of Neurology, Goethe University Medical School, Theodor Stern Kai 7, 60590 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Ewa Damrath

Affiliation Experimental Neurology, Dept. of Neurology, Goethe University Medical School, Theodor Stern Kai 7, 60590 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Marina Jendrach

Affiliation Experimental Neurology, Dept. of Neurology, Goethe University Medical School, Theodor Stern Kai 7, 60590 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Nesli Ece Şen

Affiliation Neurodegeneration Research Laboratory (NDAL), Molecular Biology and Genetics Department, Boğaziçi University, 34470 Istanbul, Turkey

A. Nazlı Başak

Affiliation Neurodegeneration Research Laboratory (NDAL), Molecular Biology and Genetics Department, Boğaziçi University, 34470 Istanbul, Turkey

Georg Auburger

auburger@em.uni-frankfurt.de

Affiliation Experimental Neurology, Dept. of Neurology, Goethe University Medical School, Theodor Stern Kai 7, 60590 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MVH TS ED GA. Performed the experiments: MVH TS. Analyzed the data: MVH TS MJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NES ANB. Wrote the paper: MVH GA.