About the Authors

Razieh Kamali-Jamil

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

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Centre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Ester Vázquez-Fernández

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Visualization

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Centre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Brian Tancowny

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Centre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Vineet Rathod

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Centre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Sara Amidian

Roles Software

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Centre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Xiongyao Wang

Roles Investigation, Visualization

Current address: School of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Weihai, Shandong, China

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Centre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Xinli Tang

Roles Resources

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Centre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Andrew Fang

Roles Resources

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Centre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Assunta Senatore

Roles Resources

Affiliation Institute of Neuropathology, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Simone Hornemann

Roles Resources

Affiliation Institute of Neuropathology, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Sandor Dudas

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Canadian BSE Reference Laboratory, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Lethbridge Laboratory, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

Adriano Aguzzi

Roles Resources

Affiliation Institute of Neuropathology, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Howard S. Young

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Holger Wille

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

wille@ualberta.ca

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Centre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Neuroscience and Mental Health Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.