About the Authors

Garrett G. Gross

Affiliations Department of Neurology, The David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Brain Research Institute, The David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

R. M. Renny Feldman

Contributed equally to this work with: R. M. Renny Feldman, Atish Ganguly

Current address: Gevo Inc., Englewood, Colorado, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Neurology, The David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Atish Ganguly

Contributed equally to this work with: R. M. Renny Feldman, Atish Ganguly

Affiliation Department of Neurology, The David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Jinhui Wang

Current address: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Neurology, The David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Hong Yu

Current address: Rainbow Transgenic Flies Inc., Newbury Park, California, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Neurology, The David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Ming Guo

mingfly@ucla.edu

Affiliations Department of Neurology, The David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology, The David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Brain Research Institute, The David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MG GG RF AG. Performed the experiments: MG GG RF AG. Analyzed the data: MG GG RF AG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JW HY. Wrote the paper: MG.