About the Authors

Matthias Höllerhage

Contributed equally to this work with: Matthias Höllerhage, Roman Deck

Affiliations Dept. of Neurology, Philipps-Universität, Marburg, Germany, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Dept. for Translational Neurodegeneration, Munich, Germany, Department of Neurology, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

Roman Deck

Contributed equally to this work with: Matthias Höllerhage, Roman Deck

Affiliation Dept. of Neurology, Philipps-Universität, Marburg, Germany

Anderson De Andrade

Affiliations Dept. of Neurology, Philipps-Universität, Marburg, Germany, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Dept. for Translational Neurodegeneration, Munich, Germany

Gesine Respondek

Affiliations Dept. of Neurology, Philipps-Universität, Marburg, Germany, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Dept. for Translational Neurodegeneration, Munich, Germany, Department of Neurology, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

Hong Xu

Affiliations Dept. of Neurology, Philipps-Universität, Marburg, Germany, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Dept. for Translational Neurodegeneration, Munich, Germany

Thomas W. Rösler

Affiliations Dept. of Neurology, Philipps-Universität, Marburg, Germany, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Dept. for Translational Neurodegeneration, Munich, Germany

Mohamed Salama

Affiliations Dept. of Neurology, Philipps-Universität, Marburg, Germany, Department of Toxicology, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt

Thomas Carlsson

Affiliations Dept. of Neurology, Philipps-Universität, Marburg, Germany, Department of Pharmacology, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Elizabeth S. Yamada

Affiliations Dept. of Neurology, Philipps-Universität, Marburg, Germany, Experimental Neuropathology Laboratory, Federal University of Pará, Belém, Brazil

Seham A. Gad El Hak

Affiliation Department of Toxicology, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt

Michel Goedert

Affiliation Division of Neurobiology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Wolfgang H. Oertel

Affiliation Dept. of Neurology, Philipps-Universität, Marburg, Germany

Günter U. Höglinger

guenter.hoeglinger@dzne.de

Affiliations Dept. of Neurology, Philipps-Universität, Marburg, Germany, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Dept. for Translational Neurodegeneration, Munich, Germany, Department of Neurology, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MH RD ADA GR HX TWR MS TC ESY SAGEH WHO GUH. Performed the experiments: MH RD ADA GR TC. Analyzed the data: MH RD ADA TC GUH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MG. Wrote the paper: MH RD ADA GR HX TWR MS TC ESY SAGEH MG WHO GUH.