About the Authors

Valentina Neplioueva

† Deceased.

Affiliation Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Elena Y. Dobrikova

Affiliation Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Neelanjan Mukherjee

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Jack D. Keene

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Matthias Gromeier

grome001@mc.duke.edu

Affiliation Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ED JDK MG. Performed the experiments: VN ED. Analyzed the data: VN NM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VN. Wrote the paper: ED NM JDK MG. Performed some procedures involving primate tissues: MG.