About the Authors

Shalaka Mulherkar

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Feng Liu

Current address: Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, The Woodlands, Texas, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Qin Chen

Affiliations Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Anjana Narayanan

Affiliation Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Anthony D. Couvillon

Current address: Cell Signaling Technology, Danvers, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

H. David Shine

Affiliations Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Kimberley F. Tolias

tolias@bcm

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SM FL KFT. Performed the experiments: SM FL QC AN ADC. Analyzed the data: SM FL QC AN HDS KFT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ADC. Wrote the paper: SM KFT.