About the Authors

Xiaochuan Wang

Affiliations Department of Neurochemistry, Inge Grundke-Iqbal Research Floor, New York State Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities, Staten Island, New York, United States of America, Department of Pathophysiology, Key Laboratory of Neurological Disease of National Education Ministry, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Julie Blanchard

Affiliation Department of Neurochemistry, Inge Grundke-Iqbal Research Floor, New York State Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities, Staten Island, New York, United States of America

Inge Grundke-Iqbal

† Deceased.

Affiliation Department of Neurochemistry, Inge Grundke-Iqbal Research Floor, New York State Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities, Staten Island, New York, United States of America

Khalid Iqbal

khalid.iqbal.ibr@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Neurochemistry, Inge Grundke-Iqbal Research Floor, New York State Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities, Staten Island, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KI IG-I. Performed the experiments: XW JB. Analyzed the data: XW JB IG-I KI. Wrote the paper: XW KI.