About the Authors

Elena V. Romanova

Affiliation Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology and the Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Kosei Sasaki

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Vera Alexeeva

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Ferdinand S. Vilim

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Jian Jing

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Timothy A. Richmond

Affiliation Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology and the Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Klaudiusz R. Weiss

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Jonathan V. Sweedler

jsweedle@illinois.edu

Affiliation Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology and the Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EVR FSV KRW JVS. Performed the experiments: EVR KS VA FSV JJ TAR. Analyzed the data: EVR KS VA FSV JJ TAR JVS. Wrote the paper: EVR JJ KRW JVS.