About the Authors

Amy N. Hicks

ahicks@wakehealth.edu

Affiliation Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Diego Lorenzetti

Affiliation Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Jonathan Gilley

Affiliation Signalling Programme, The Babraham Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Baisong Lu

Affiliation Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Karl-Erik Andersson

Affiliation Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Carol Miligan

Affiliations Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy and the Neuroscience Program, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, North Carolina, United States of America, The Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Center, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Paul A. Overbeek

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Ronald Oppenheim

Affiliations Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy and the Neuroscience Program, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, North Carolina, United States of America, The Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Center, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Colin E. Bishop

Affiliation Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AH DL BL KA RO CEB JG. Performed the experiments: AH DL BL RO JG. Analyzed the data: AH DL BL KA CM PO RO CEB JG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PO RO CEB. Wrote the paper: AH KA CM PO RO CEB JG.