About the Authors

Keifer P. Walsh

Contributed equally to this work with: Keifer P. Walsh, Laurie S. Minamide, Thomas B. Kuhn

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Laurie S. Minamide

Contributed equally to this work with: Keifer P. Walsh, Laurie S. Minamide, Thomas B. Kuhn

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Sarah J. Kane

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America, Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Neuroscience Program, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Alisa E. Shaw

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

David R. Brown

Affiliation Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom

Bruce Pulford

Affiliation Prion Research Center, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Mark D. Zabel

Affiliations Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Neuroscience Program, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America, Prion Research Center, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

J. David Lambeth

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Thomas B. Kuhn

Contributed equally to this work with: Keifer P. Walsh, Laurie S. Minamide, Thomas B. Kuhn

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska, United States of America

James R. Bamburg

James.Bamburg@ColoState.edu

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America, Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Neuroscience Program, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KPW LSM SJK AES JDL TBK JRB. Performed the experiments: KPW LSM SJK TBK. Analyzed the data: KPW LSM DRB MDZ JDL TBK JRB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DRB BP MDZ JDL. Wrote the paper: KPW LSM DRB JDL TBK JRB.