About the Authors

Valentina Castillo

Contributed equally to this work with: Valentina Castillo, Maritza Oñate

Affiliations Biomedical Neuroscience Institute, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile, Program of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Center for Molecular Studies of the Cell, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile

Maritza Oñate

Contributed equally to this work with: Valentina Castillo, Maritza Oñate

Affiliations Biomedical Neuroscience Institute, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile, Program of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Center for Molecular Studies of the Cell, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile, Millenium Nucleus for Regenerative Biology, Faculty of Biology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

Ute Woehlbier

Affiliations Biomedical Neuroscience Institute, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile, Program of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Center for Molecular Studies of the Cell, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile

Pablo Rozas

Affiliations Biomedical Neuroscience Institute, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile, Program of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Center for Molecular Studies of the Cell, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile

Catherine Andreu

Affiliations Biomedical Neuroscience Institute, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile, Program of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Center for Molecular Studies of the Cell, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile

Danilo Medinas

Affiliations Biomedical Neuroscience Institute, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile, Program of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Center for Molecular Studies of the Cell, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile

Pamela Valdés

Affiliations Biomedical Neuroscience Institute, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile, Program of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Center for Molecular Studies of the Cell, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile

Fabiola Osorio

Affiliation Program of Immunology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile

Gabriela Mercado

Affiliations Biomedical Neuroscience Institute, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile, Program of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Center for Molecular Studies of the Cell, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile

René L. Vidal

Affiliations Biomedical Neuroscience Institute, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile, Neurounion Biomedical Foundation, CENPAR, Santiago, Chile

Bredford Kerr

Affiliation Centro de Estudios Científicos, Valdivia, Chile

Felipe A. Court

Affiliation Millenium Nucleus for Regenerative Biology, Faculty of Biology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

Claudio Hetz

chetz@med.uchile.cl

Current address: Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of Chile. Independencia 1027, Santiago, Chile.

Affiliations Biomedical Neuroscience Institute, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile, Program of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Center for Molecular Studies of the Cell, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile, Department of Immunology and Infectious diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston MA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VC MO UW PR DM PV FO GM RLV CH. Performed the experiments: VC MO UW PR CA DM PV FO. Analyzed the data: VC MO UW PR DM PV RLV CH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FO BK. Wrote the paper: VC MO FAC CH.