About the Authors

Rebecca Banerjee

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience, Center for Neurovirology and Neurodegenerative Disorders, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

R. Lee Mosley

rlmosley@unmc.edu (RM); SP30@Columbia.edu (SP); hegendel@unmc.edu (HG)

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience, Center for Neurovirology and Neurodegenerative Disorders, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Ashley D. Reynolds

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience, Center for Neurovirology and Neurodegenerative Disorders, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Alok Dhar

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience, Center for Neurovirology and Neurodegenerative Disorders, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Vernice Jackson-Lewis

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Center for Motor Neuron Biology and Disease, Eleanor and Lou Gehrig MDA/ALS Research Center, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Paul H. Gordon

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Center for Motor Neuron Biology and Disease, Eleanor and Lou Gehrig MDA/ALS Research Center, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Serge Przedborski

rlmosley@unmc.edu (RM); SP30@Columbia.edu (SP); hegendel@unmc.edu (HG)

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Center for Motor Neuron Biology and Disease, Eleanor and Lou Gehrig MDA/ALS Research Center, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Howard E. Gendelman

rlmosley@unmc.edu (RM); SP30@Columbia.edu (SP); hegendel@unmc.edu (HG)

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience, Center for Neurovirology and Neurodegenerative Disorders, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RB RLM PHG SP HEG. Performed the experiments: RB RLM ADR AD VJL. Analyzed the data: RB RLM AD PHG HEG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ADR VJL PHG SP. Wrote the paper: RB RLM HEG.