About the Authors

Cyrus Bett

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Tim D. Kurt

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Melanie Lucero

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Margarita Trejo

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Annemieke J. Rozemuller

Affiliation Dutch Surveillance Centre for Prion Diseases, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Qingzhong Kong

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

K. Peter R. Nilsson

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Biology, and Physics, Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden

Eliezer Masliah

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Michael B. Oldstone

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Microbial Science, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Christina J. Sigurdson

csigurdson@ucsd.edu

Affiliations Department of Pathology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Immunology, and Microbiology, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CB TDK CJS. Performed the experiments: CB TDK ML MT KPRN. Analyzed the data: CB TDK KPRN EM MBO CJS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AJR QK MBO. Wrote the paper: CB CJS.