About the Authors

Zhenming Yu

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhenming Yu, Yongqing Zhu, Alice S. Chen-Plotkin

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Yongqing Zhu

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhenming Yu, Yongqing Zhu, Alice S. Chen-Plotkin

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Alice S. Chen-Plotkin

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhenming Yu, Yongqing Zhu, Alice S. Chen-Plotkin

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Dana Clay-Falcone

Affiliation Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Leo McCluskey

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Lauren Elman

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Robert G. Kalb

Affiliations Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

John Q. Trojanowski

Affiliations Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Virginia M.-Y. Lee

Affiliations Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Vivianna M. Van Deerlin

Affiliations Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Aaron D. Gitler

gitler@mail.med.upenn.edu (ADG); nbonini@sas.upenn.edu (NMB)

Affiliation Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Nancy M. Bonini

gitler@mail.med.upenn.edu (ADG); nbonini@sas.upenn.edu (NMB)

Affiliations Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

N.B. and A.D.G. are inventors on patent applications. A.D.G. is an inventor on patents and patent applications which have been licensed to FoldRx. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZY YZ ASC-P ADG NMB. Performed the experiments: YZ ASC-P ADG. Analyzed the data: ZY YZ ASC-P ADG NMB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DC-F LM LE RGK JQT VM-YL VMVD. Wrote the paper: ZY YZ ASC-P ADG NMB.