About the Authors

James F. Curtin

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Sciences, Gene Therapeutics Research Institute, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, The Brain Research Institute, and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, The Brain Research Institute, and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Marianela Candolfi

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Sciences, Gene Therapeutics Research Institute, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, The Brain Research Institute, and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, The Brain Research Institute, and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Tamer M. Fakhouri

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Gene Therapeutics Research Institute, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Chunyan Liu

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Sciences, Gene Therapeutics Research Institute, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, The Brain Research Institute, and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, The Brain Research Institute, and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Anderson Alden

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Gene Therapeutics Research Institute, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Matthew Edwards

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Gene Therapeutics Research Institute, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Pedro R. Lowenstein

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Sciences, Gene Therapeutics Research Institute, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, The Brain Research Institute, and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, The Brain Research Institute, and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Maria G. Castro

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: castromg@cshs.org

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Sciences, Gene Therapeutics Research Institute, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, The Brain Research Institute, and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, The Brain Research Institute, and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PL MC JC ME MGC CL TF AA. Performed the experiments: PL JC ME MC CL TF AA. Analyzed the data: PL MC JC ME MGC CL TF AA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MGC. Wrote the paper: PL MGC JC.