About the Authors

Nicholas P. Whitehead

npwhite@u.washington.edu

Affiliations Discipline of Physiology, Bosch Institute, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Ella W. Yeung

Affiliation Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region, People's Republic of China

Stanley C. Froehner

Affiliation Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

David G. Allen

Affiliation Discipline of Physiology, Bosch Institute, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NPW DGA. Performed the experiments: NPW EWY. Analyzed the data: NPW EWY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DGA SCF. Wrote the paper: NPW EWY SCF DGA.