About the Authors

Ulf Schulze-Topphoff

Contributed equally to this work with: Ulf Schulze-Topphoff, Aparna Shetty

Affiliation Department of Neurology and Program in Immunology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Aparna Shetty

Contributed equally to this work with: Ulf Schulze-Topphoff, Aparna Shetty

Affiliation Department of Neurology and Program in Immunology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Michel Varrin-Doyer

Affiliation Department of Neurology and Program in Immunology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Nicolas Molnarfi

Current address: Department of Pathology and Immunology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Affiliation Department of Neurology and Program in Immunology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Sharon A. Sagan

Affiliation Department of Neurology and Program in Immunology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Raymond A. Sobel

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Patricia A. Nelson

Affiliation Department of Neurology and Program in Immunology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Scott S. Zamvil

zamvil@ucsf.neuroimmunol.org

Affiliation Department of Neurology and Program in Immunology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: Support for this work was provided to SSZ by Teva Pharmaceuticals, Inc.. SSZ has received personal compensation serving as a consultant or serving on data safety monitoring boards for Biogen-Idec, Teva, EMD Merck Serono, Genzyme, Novartis, Eli Lilly and Bayhill Therapeutics. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: US-T AS SSZ. Performed the experiments: US-T AS MV-D SAS RAS NM PAN. Analyzed the data: US-T AS MV-D RAS. Wrote the paper: US-T SSZ.