About the Authors

Norman Atkins Jr

Affiliation Neuroscience Program, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Jennifer W. Mitchell

Affiliation Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Elena V. Romanova

Affiliation Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Daniel J. Morgan

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Tara P. Cominski

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Jennifer L. Ecker

Affiliation Department of Biology, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

John E. Pintar

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Jonathan V. Sweedler

Affiliations Neuroscience Program, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Martha U. Gillette

mgillett@illinois.edu

Affiliations Neuroscience Program, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NAJ JWM JVS MUG. Performed the experiments: NAJ EVR JLE. Analyzed the data: NAJ JWM EVR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DJM TPC JLE JEP JVS. Wrote the paper: NAJ JWM MUG.