About the Authors

Fei Wang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Neurodegenerative Science, Van Andel Research Institute, Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States of America

Xinhe Wang

Roles Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Neurodegenerative Science, Van Andel Research Institute, Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States of America

Christina D. Orrú

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, Montana, United States of America

Bradley R. Groveman

Roles Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, Montana, United States of America

Krystyna Surewicz

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Romany Abskharon

Roles Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center for Neurodegenerative Science, Van Andel Research Institute, Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States of America, National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries (NIOF), Cairo, Egypt

Morikazu Imamura

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, Kiyotake, Miyazaki, JAPAN

Affiliation National Institute of Animal Health, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Takashi Yokoyama

Roles Resources

Affiliation National Institute of Animal Health, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Yong-Sun Kim

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ilsong Institute of Life Science, Korea CJD Diagnostic Center, Hallym University, Anyang, Republic of Korea

Kayla J. Vander Stel

Roles Investigation, Visualization

Affiliation Center for Neurodegenerative Science, Van Andel Research Institute, Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States of America

Kumar Sinniah

Roles Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States of America

Suzette A. Priola

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, Montana, United States of America

Witold K. Surewicz

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Byron Caughey

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, Montana, United States of America

Jiyan Ma

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Jiyan.Ma@vai.org

Affiliation Center for Neurodegenerative Science, Van Andel Research Institute, Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.