About the Authors

Létitia Jean

Affiliation Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Benjamin Thomas

Affiliation Central Proteomics Facility, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Abdessamad Tahiri-Alaoui

Current address: Institute for Animal Health, Compton, Newbury, United Kingdom

Affiliation Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Michael Shaw

Affiliation Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

David J. Vaux

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: david.vaux@path.ox.ac.uk

Affiliation Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

Synaptica Ltd holds patents on the use of the AChE586-599 peptide and related peptides within T40 as potential biomarkers for neurodegenerative disease. The University of Oxford holds patents on the method of plate-based surface tension measurement.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DV LJ. Performed the experiments: LJ BT MS. Analyzed the data: DV LJ BT MS AT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AT. Wrote the paper: DV LJ.