About the Authors

Amanda L. Woerman

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

awoerman@umass.edu (ALW); stanley.prusiner@ucsf.edu (SBP)

Current address: Institute for Applied Life Sciences and Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliations Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Smita Patel

Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Sabeen A. Kazmi

Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Current address: University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), UCLA Life Sciences, Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Affiliation Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Abby Oehler

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Jisoo Lee

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Daniel A. Mordes

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation C.S. Kubik Laboratory for Neuropathology, Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Steven H. Olson

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Affiliations Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Stanley B. Prusiner

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

awoerman@umass.edu (ALW); stanley.prusiner@ucsf.edu (SBP)

Affiliations Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases has a research collaboration with Daiichi Sankyo (Tokyo, Japan). Stanley B. Prusiner is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of ViewPoint Therapeutics and a member of the Board of Directors of Trizell, Ltd., neither of which have contributed financial or any other support to these studies.