About the Authors

Chunxing Yang

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Weijia Tan

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Catheryne Whittle

Affiliation Brudnick Neuropsychiatric Research Institute, Department of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Linghua Qiu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Lucheng Cao

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Schahram Akbarian

Affiliation Brudnick Neuropsychiatric Research Institute, Department of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Zuoshang Xu

Zuoshang.xu@umassmed.edu

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Cell Biology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America, Neuroscience Program, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CY ZX. Performed the experiments: CY WT CW LQ LC. Analyzed the data: CY ZX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SA. Wrote the paper: CY ZX.