About the Authors

Igor F. Tsigelny

Affiliations Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, San Diego Super Computer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Leslie Crews

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

Paula Desplats

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

Gideon M. Shaked

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

Yuriy Sharikov

Affiliation San Diego Super Computer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Hideya Mizuno

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

Brian Spencer

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

Edward Rockenstein

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

Margarita Trejo

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

Oleksandr Platoshyn

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

Jason X.-J. Yuan

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

Eliezer Masliah

emasliah@UCSD.edu

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IFT JXJY EM. Performed the experiments: IFT LC PD GMS YS HM BS ER MT OP. Analyzed the data: IFT JXJY EM. Wrote the paper: IFT LC EM.