About the Authors

Soyeon Lim

Contributed equally to this work with: Soyeon Lim, Adrianne S. Chesser

Affiliation Department of Neurology in the Center for Translational Neuromedicine, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Adrianne S. Chesser

Contributed equally to this work with: Soyeon Lim, Adrianne S. Chesser

Affiliation Department of Neurology in the Center for Translational Neuromedicine, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Jonathan C. Grima

Affiliation Department of Neurology in the Center for Translational Neuromedicine, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Phillip M. Rappold

Affiliation Department of Neurology in the Center for Translational Neuromedicine, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America

David Blum

Affiliations Jean-Pierre Aubert Research Centre, Universite Lille-Nord de France, IMPRT, Lille, France, Alzheimer and Tauopathies, Inserm UMR-U837, Lille, France, CHRU, Lille, France

Serge Przedborski

kim_tieu@urmc.rochester.edu (KT); sp30@columbia.edu (SP)

Affiliations Center for Motor Neuron Biology and Disease, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America, Departments of Neurology, Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Kim Tieu

kim_tieu@urmc.rochester.edu (KT); sp30@columbia.edu (SP)

Affiliation Department of Neurology in the Center for Translational Neuromedicine, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KT SP. Performed the experiments: SL ASC JCG PMR KT. Analyzed the data: SL ASC KT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DB SP KT. Wrote the paper: ASC DB SP KT.