About the Authors

Yun-wu Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yun-wu Zhang, Yaomin Chen

xuh@sanfordburnham.org (YZ); yunzhang@xmu.edu.cn (HX)

Affiliations Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disease and Aging Research and Institute of Neuroscience, College of Medicine, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China, Neurodegenerative Disease Research Program, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Yaomin Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Yun-wu Zhang, Yaomin Chen

Affiliation Neurodegenerative Disease Research Program, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Yun Liu

Affiliation Neurodegenerative Disease Research Program, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Yingjun Zhao

Affiliations Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disease and Aging Research and Institute of Neuroscience, College of Medicine, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China, Neurodegenerative Disease Research Program, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Francesca-Fang Liao

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, College of Medicine, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Huaxi Xu

xuh@sanfordburnham.org (YZ); yunzhang@xmu.edu.cn (HX)

Affiliation Neurodegenerative Disease Research Program, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YWZ HX. Performed the experiments: YWZ YC YL YZ. Analyzed the data: YWZ FFL HX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FFL. Wrote the paper: YWZ HX.