About the Authors

Tao Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Tao Yang, Juliet K. Knowles

Affiliations Department of Neurology and Neurological Science, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Neurology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Juliet K. Knowles

Contributed equally to this work with: Tao Yang, Juliet K. Knowles

Affiliations Department of Neurology and Neurological Science, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Neurology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Qun Lu

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, United States of America

Hong Zhang

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Taub Institute, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Ottavio Arancio

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Taub Institute, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Laura A. Moore

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Timothy Chang

Affiliation Department of Neurology and Neurological Science, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Qian Wang

Affiliation Department of Neurology and Neurological Science, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Katrin Andreasson

Affiliation Department of Neurology and Neurological Science, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Jayakumar Rajadas

Affiliations Department of Neurology and Neurological Science, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Gerald G. Fuller

Affiliation Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Youmei Xie

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Stephen M. Massa

Affiliation Department of Neurology and Laboratory for Computational Neurochemistry and Drug Discovery, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Frank M. Longo

longo@stanford.edu

Affiliations Department of Neurology and Neurological Science, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Neurology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

Dr. Longo is a founder of PharmatrophiX Inc., a company focused on the development of neurotrophin receptor ligands.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TY JKK HZ OA SM FML. Performed the experiments: TY JKK QL HZ OA LM TC YX SM FML. Analyzed the data: TY JKK QL HZ OA QW KA JR GGF SM FML. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QW KA JR GGF SM FML. Wrote the paper: TY JKK SM FML.