About the Authors

Kanae Iijima-Ando

Kanae.Iijima-Ando@jefferson.edu (KIA); Koichi.Iijima@jefferson.edu (KI)

Affiliation Laboratory of Neurogenetics and Pathobiology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Stephen A. Hearn

Affiliation Microscopy Facility, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America

Christopher Shenton

Affiliations Laboratory of Neurogenetics and Pathobiology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Farber Institute for Neurosciences, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Anthony Gatt

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Farber Institute for Neurosciences, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

LiJuan Zhao

Affiliation Laboratory of Neurogenetics and Pathobiology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Koichi Iijima

Kanae.Iijima-Ando@jefferson.edu (KIA); Koichi.Iijima@jefferson.edu (KI)

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Farber Institute for Neurosciences, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KIA KI. Performed the experiments: KIA SAH CS AG LZ KI. Analyzed the data: KIA SAH KI. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KIA KI. Wrote the paper: KIA KI.