About the Authors

Nicole Schonrock

nschonrock@med.usyd.edu.au (NS); jgoetz@med.usyd.edu.au (JG)

Affiliation Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease Laboratory, Brain and Mind Research Institute, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Yazi D. Ke

Affiliation Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease Laboratory, Brain and Mind Research Institute, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

David Humphreys

Affiliation Molecular Genetics Division, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute (VCCRI), Darlinghurst, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Matthias Staufenbiel

Affiliation Novartis Institute for BioMedical Research, Basel, Switzerland

Lars M. Ittner

Affiliation Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease Laboratory, Brain and Mind Research Institute, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Thomas Preiss

Affiliations Molecular Genetics Division, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute (VCCRI), Darlinghurst, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences and St. Vincent's Clinical School, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Jürgen Götz

nschonrock@med.usyd.edu.au (NS); jgoetz@med.usyd.edu.au (JG)

Affiliation Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease Laboratory, Brain and Mind Research Institute, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have a purely academic collaboration with Matthias Staufenbiel of Novartis. There is no commercial interest attached to this work with him. All PLoS ONE policies regarding the sharing of data and materials will be adhered to.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NS TP JG. Performed the experiments: NS YDK DTH LMI. Analyzed the data: NS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MS TP JG. Wrote the paper: NS MS TP JG.