About the Authors

Grietje Krabbe

Contributed equally to this work with: Grietje Krabbe, Annett Halle, Helmut Kettenmann, Frank L. Heppner

Current address: Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Affiliation Max Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC), Berlin, Germany

Annett Halle

Contributed equally to this work with: Grietje Krabbe, Annett Halle, Helmut Kettenmann, Frank L. Heppner

Affiliations Department of Neuropathology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Center of Advanced European Studies and Research (caesar), Bonn, Germany

Vitali Matyash

Affiliation Max Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC), Berlin, Germany

Jan L. Rinnenthal

Affiliation Department of Neuropathology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Gina D. Eom

Affiliation Department of Neuropathology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Ulrike Bernhardt

Affiliation Department of Neuropathology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Kelly R. Miller

Affiliation Department of Neuropathology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Stefan Prokop

Affiliation Department of Neuropathology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Helmut Kettenmann

Contributed equally to this work with: Grietje Krabbe, Annett Halle, Helmut Kettenmann, Frank L. Heppner

kettenmann@mdc-berlin.de (HK); frank.heppner@charite.de (FLH)

Affiliation Max Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC), Berlin, Germany

Frank L. Heppner

Contributed equally to this work with: Grietje Krabbe, Annett Halle, Helmut Kettenmann, Frank L. Heppner

kettenmann@mdc-berlin.de (HK); frank.heppner@charite.de (FLH)

Affiliation Department of Neuropathology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HK FLH. Performed the experiments: GK AH VM JLR GDE UB KRM SP. Analyzed the data: GK AH VM JLR GDE UB KRM SP. Wrote the paper: HK FLH GK AH VM JLR GDE UB KRM SP.