About the Authors

Cynthia A. Massaad

Affiliation Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Samir K. Amin

Affiliation Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Lingyun Hu

Affiliation Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Yuan Mei

Affiliations Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Cognitive Science, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Eric Klann

Contributed equally to this work with: Eric Klann, Robia G. Pautler

Affiliation Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America

Robia G. Pautler

Contributed equally to this work with: Eric Klann, Robia G. Pautler

rpautler@bcm.edu

Affiliation Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CAM YM EK RGP. Performed the experiments: CAM SA LH YM. Analyzed the data: CAM SA LH YM RGP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LH RGP. Wrote the paper: CAM SA EK RGP.