About the Authors

Marcelo F. Santiago

Affiliations The Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Instituto de Biofisica Carlos Chagas Filho, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Jana Veliskova

Affiliations The Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, The Saul R. Korey Department of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Naman K. Patel

Affiliation The Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Sarah E. Lutz

Affiliation The Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Dorothee Caille

Affiliation Department of Cell Physiology and Metabolism, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Anne Charollais

Affiliation Department of Cell Physiology and Metabolism, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Paolo Meda

Affiliation Department of Cell Physiology and Metabolism, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Eliana Scemes

eliana.scemes@einstein.yu.edu

Affiliation The Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MFS JV PM ES. Performed the experiments: MFS JV SEL NKP ES. Analyzed the data: MFS JV ES. Wrote the manuscript with significant input from all other authors: ES. Involved in setting the blind experiments and in animal genotyping: DC AC.