About the Authors

Stefano Benvegnù

Affiliation Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati - International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA-ISAS), Trieste, Italy

Diego Franciotta

Affiliation IRCCS, Foundation, Neurological Institute C. Mondino, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

Josh Sussman

Current address: ImClone Systems Incorporated, New York, New York, United States of America

Affiliation Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases

Angela Bachi

Affiliation DIBIT, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy

Elisabetta Zardini

Affiliation IRCCS, Foundation, Neurological Institute C. Mondino, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

Paola Torreri

Affiliation National Centre for Rare Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Roma, Italy

Cedric Govaerts

Affiliations Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium

Salvatore Pizzo

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Giuseppe Legname

legname@sissa.it

Affiliations Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati - International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA-ISAS), Trieste, Italy, Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SB DF GL. Performed the experiments: SB DF JS AB EZ PT. Analyzed the data: SB DF JS AB PT CG SVP GL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SB SVP GL. Wrote the paper: SB DF SVP GL.