About the Authors

Ilan Vaknin

Contributed equally to this work with: Ilan Vaknin, Gilad Kunis

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Gilad Kunis

Contributed equally to this work with: Ilan Vaknin, Gilad Kunis

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Omer Miller

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Oleg Butovsky

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Shay Bukshpan

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

David R. Beers

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Methodist Neurological Institute, The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, The Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Jenny S. Henkel

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Methodist Neurological Institute, The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, The Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Eti Yoles

Affiliation NeuroQuest Ltd. Misgav Venture Accelerator, Misgav Business Park, Misgav, Israel

Stanley H. Appel

michal.schwartz@weizmann.ac.il (MS); sappel@tmhs.org (SHA)

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Methodist Neurological Institute, The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, The Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Michal Schwartz

michal.schwartz@weizmann.ac.il (MS); sappel@tmhs.org (SHA)

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: E.Y. was an employee of NeuroQuest Ltd. (Misgav Venture Accelerator, Misgav Business Park 20179, Israel) during the research period. There are no other relevant declarations relating to employment, consultancy, patents and products in development. 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: MS SHA DRB EY GK SB OB IV. Performed the experiments: IV GK OM OB SB SHA. Analyzed the data: IV GK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DRB JSH SHA. Wrote the paper: IV MS. Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: MS SHA DRB IV. Obtained funding: MS. Administrative, technical, or material support: MS EY SHA DRB IV. Study supervision: MS SHA.