About the Authors

Michael Weisenhaus

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Margaret L. Allen

Current address: Lexicon Genetics Inc., The Woodlands, Texas, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Linghai Yang

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Yuan Lu

Current address: National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

C. Blake Nichols

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Thomas Su

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Johannes W. Hell

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

G. Stanley McKnight

mcknight@u.washington.edu

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MW MLA JWH GSM. Performed the experiments: MW MLA LY YL CBN TS. Analyzed the data: MW YL JWH. Wrote the paper: MW GSM.