About the Authors

Ryuji Yamaguchi

rudy.yamaguchi@gmail.com

Affiliations Program of Cell Death and Apoptosis, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Molecular Biology, Kyushu University Medical School, Fukuoka, Japan

Edith Janssen

Affiliation Division of Molecular Immunology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Guy Perkins

Affiliation Department of Neurosciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Mark Ellisman

Affiliation Department of Neurosciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Shinichi Kitada

Affiliation Program of Cell Death and Apoptosis, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

John C. Reed

Affiliation Program of Cell Death and Apoptosis, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RY EJ. Performed the experiments: EJ GP SK RY. Analyzed the data: RY EJ GP JCR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RY JCR EJ SK GP ME. Wrote the paper: RY JCR GP.