About the Authors

Zhou Han

Affiliations The John B. Pierce Laboratory, Inc., New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Lei Jin

Affiliation Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Fuyi Chen

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Neurobiology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America

Joseph J. Loturco

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Neurobiology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America

Lawrence B. Cohen

Affiliations Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Center for Functional Connectomics, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Alexey Bondar

Affiliations Institute of Nanobiology and Structural Biology GCRC, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Zamek 136, Nove Hrady, Czech Republic, Department of Molecular Biology, University of South Bohemia, Branisovska 31, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic

Josef Lazar

Affiliations Institute of Nanobiology and Structural Biology GCRC, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Zamek 136, Nove Hrady, Czech Republic, Department of Molecular Biology, University of South Bohemia, Branisovska 31, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic

Vincent A. Pieribone

vpieribo@jbpierce.org.

Affiliations The John B. Pierce Laboratory, Inc., New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Neurobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Competing Interests

VAP is a member of the non-profit organization, The John B. Pierce Laboratory, Inc. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZH LBC JL VAP. Performed the experiments: ZH LJ FC AB JL. Analyzed the data: ZH LJ JL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JJL. Wrote the paper: ZH LJ LBC JL VAP.