About the Authors

Gerold Schmitt-Ulms

g.schmittulms@utoronto.ca

Affiliations Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Sepehr Ehsani

Affiliations Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Joel C. Watts

Affiliations Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

David Westaway

Affiliation Centre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Holger Wille

Affiliations Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, 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: GSU. Performed the experiments: GSU SE JCW HW. Analyzed the data: GSU SE JCW DW HW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GSU DW. Wrote the paper: GSU SE JCW DW HW.