About the Authors

Masamitsu Negishi

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Somsakul P. Wongpalee

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Sukumar Sarkar

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Jonghoon Park

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Kyung Yong Lee

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Yoshiyuki Shibata

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Brian J. Reon

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Roger Abounader

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Neurology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Yutaka Suzuki

Affiliation The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Sumio Sugano

Affiliation The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Anindya Dutta

ad8q@virginia.edu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MN AD. Performed the experiments: MN SW S. Sarkar Y. Shibata KL JP BR. Analyzed the data: MN Y. Shibata S. Sarkar. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RA Y. Suzuki S. Sugano. Wrote the paper: MN AD.