About the Authors

Li Zhu

Affiliations Department of Neurology and Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Meng Su

Affiliations Department of Neurology and Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Pathology, John Hopkins Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Louise Lucast

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Program in Cellular Neuroscience, Neurodegeneration and Repair, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Lijuan Liu

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Program in Cellular Neuroscience, Neurodegeneration and Repair, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

William J. Netzer

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

Samuel E. Gandy

Affiliations Department of Neurology and Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Dongming Cai

dongming.cai@mssm.edu

Affiliations Department of Neurology and Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LZ DC. Performed the experiments: LZ MS LL LL DC. Analyzed the data: LZ MS WN SG DC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LL LL WN DC. Wrote the paper: WN SG DC.