About the Authors

Karen K. Y. Ling

Contributed equally to this work with: Karen K. Y. Ling, Ming-Yi Lin

Affiliation Section of Neurobiology, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Ming-Yi Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Karen K. Y. Ling, Ming-Yi Lin

Affiliation Section of Neurobiology, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Brian Zingg

Affiliation Section of Neurobiology, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Zhihua Feng

Affiliation Section of Neurobiology, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Chien-Ping Ko

cko@college.usc.edu

Affiliation Section of Neurobiology, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CPK KKYL MYL. Performed the experiments: KKYL MYL BZ ZF. Analyzed the data: KKYL MYL BZ ZF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KKYL MYL. Wrote the paper: KKYL MYL CPK.