About the Authors

Paola Llanos

pllanos@med.uchile.cl (PL); chidalgo@med.uchile.cl (CH)

Affiliations Institute for Research in Dental Sciences, Facultad de Odontología, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Center of Molecular Studies of the Cell, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile

Ariel Contreras-Ferrat

Affiliations Institute for Research in Dental Sciences, Facultad de Odontología, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Center of Molecular Studies of the Cell, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile

Genaro Barrientos

Affiliation Physiology and Biophysics Program, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile

Marco Valencia

Affiliation Center of Molecular Studies of the Cell, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile

David Mears

Current address: Department of Anatomy, Physiology & Genetics, USUHS School of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliations Center of Molecular Studies of the Cell, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Human Genetics Program, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile

Cecilia Hidalgo

pllanos@med.uchile.cl (PL); chidalgo@med.uchile.cl (CH)

Affiliations Center of Molecular Studies of the Cell, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Physiology and Biophysics Program, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Biomedical Neuroscience Institute, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PL ACF GB DM CH. Performed the experiments: PL MV ACF. Analyzed the data: PL MV ACF GB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PL DM CH. Wrote the paper: PL CH.