About the Authors

John C. O'Leary III

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, Byrd Alzheimer's Research Institute, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Sheetal Dharia

Affiliation College of Pharmacy, Byrd Alzheimer's Research Institute, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Laura J. Blair

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, Byrd Alzheimer's Research Institute, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Sarah Brady

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, Byrd Alzheimer's Research Institute, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Amelia G. Johnson

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, Byrd Alzheimer's Research Institute, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Melinda Peters

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Byrd Alzheimer's Research Institute, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Joyce Cheung-Flynn

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Marc B. Cox

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States of America, Border Biomedical Research Center, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States of America

Gabriel de Erausquin

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Edwin J. Weeber

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Byrd Alzheimer's Research Institute, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Umesh K. Jinwal

Affiliation College of Pharmacy, Byrd Alzheimer's Research Institute, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Chad A. Dickey

cdickey@health.usf.edu

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, Byrd Alzheimer's Research Institute, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CAD JCO. Performed the experiments: JCO LJB SB AGJ UKJ JC-F MBC. Analyzed the data: JCO GdE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MP EJW. Wrote the paper: CAD JCO JC-F MBC EJW GdE SD.