About the Authors

Matias Mosqueira

Contributed equally to this work with: Matias Mosqueira, Gabriel Willmann

Affiliations Department of Physiology and Pennsylvania Muscle Institute, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Medical Biophysics Group, Institute of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

Gabriel Willmann

Contributed equally to this work with: Matias Mosqueira, Gabriel Willmann

Current address: Eye Hospital and Institute for Ophthalmic Research, Centre for Ophthalmology, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

Affiliations Department of Physiology and Pennsylvania Muscle Institute, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Vegetative Physiology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Ulrike Zeiger

Current address: Institute of Pathophysiology, University of Greifswald, Karlsburg, Germany

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Pennsylvania Muscle Institute, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Tejvir S. Khurana

tsk@mail.med.upenn.edu

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Pennsylvania Muscle Institute, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MM GW TSK. Performed the experiments: MM GW UZ. Analyzed the data: MM GW UZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TSK. Wrote the paper: MM. Drafting the article: MM GW UZ TSK. Revision of article: MM GW TSK. Upload of article: GW.