About the Authors

Zhengtong Pei

Current address: Department of Pathology, St. Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, New Jersey, United States of America

Affiliations Hugo W. Moser Research Institute at Kennedy Krieger, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Peter Fraisl

Current address: Vesalius Research Center (VRC), Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven), Leuven, Belgium

Affiliation Center for Brain Research, Medical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Xiaohai Shi

Affiliations Hugo W. Moser Research Institute at Kennedy Krieger, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Edward Gabrielson

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Sonja Forss-Petter

Affiliation Center for Brain Research, Medical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Johannes Berger

Affiliation Center for Brain Research, Medical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Paul A. Watkins

watkins@kennedykrieger.org

Affiliations Hugo W. Moser Research Institute at Kennedy Krieger, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PAW JB ZP PF. Performed the experiments: ZP PF XS SF-P. Analyzed the data: PAW JB PF ZP XS EG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EG. Wrote the paper: PAW JB PF.