About the Authors

Istvan Pirko

pirko@mayo.edu

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Yi Chen

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Anne K. Lohrey

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Jeremiah McDole

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Jeffrey D. Gamez

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Kathleen S. Allen

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Kevin D. Pavelko

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Diana M. Lindquist

Affiliation Imaging Research Center, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

R. Scott Dunn

Affiliation Imaging Research Center, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Slobodan I. Macura

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, NMR Core Facility, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Aaron J. Johnson

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IP AJJ. Performed the experiments: IP YC AKL JM DML SD AJJ KDP KSA JDG SIM. Analyzed the data: IP AKL JM AJJ KSA JDG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KDP KSA. Wrote the paper: IP JMD AJJ JDG.