About the Authors

David Gómez-Varela

dgomezvarela@ucsd.edu

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology of Neuronal Signals, Max-Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine, Göttingen, Germany

Tobias Kohl

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology of Neuronal Signals, Max-Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine, Göttingen, Germany

Manuela Schmidt

Affiliations European Neuroscience Institute, Göttingen, Germany, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Research Center for Molecular Physiology of the Brain, Göttingen, Germany

María E. Rubio

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology of Neuronal Signals, Max-Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine, Göttingen, Germany

Hiroshi Kawabe

Affiliation Department of Molecular Neurobiology, Max-Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine, Göttingen, Germany

Ralf B. Nehring

Affiliation Departments of Neuroscience and Molecular and Human Genetics, University of Texas, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Stephan Schäfer

Affiliation Institute of Biophysics/BIOTEC, Dresden, Germany

Walter Stühmer

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology of Neuronal Signals, Max-Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine, Göttingen, Germany, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Research Center for Molecular Physiology of the Brain, Göttingen, Germany

Luis A. Pardo

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology of Neuronal Signals, Max-Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine, Göttingen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DGV TK WS LAP. Performed the experiments: DGV TK MER HK. Analyzed the data: DGV TK MS MER SS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DGV TK HK RBN SS. Wrote the paper: DGV MS WS LAP.