About the Authors

Daniela C Dieterich

Contributed equally to this work with: Daniela C Dieterich, Anna Karpova, Marina Mikhaylova

Current address: California Institute of Technology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Division of Biology, Pasadena, California, United States of America

Affiliation AG Molecular Mechanisms of Plasticity, Department of Neurochemistry and Molecular Biology, Leibniz-Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany

Anna Karpova

Contributed equally to this work with: Daniela C Dieterich, Anna Karpova, Marina Mikhaylova

Affiliation AG Molecular Mechanisms of Plasticity, Department of Neurochemistry and Molecular Biology, Leibniz-Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany

Marina Mikhaylova

Contributed equally to this work with: Daniela C Dieterich, Anna Karpova, Marina Mikhaylova

Affiliation AG Molecular Mechanisms of Plasticity, Department of Neurochemistry and Molecular Biology, Leibniz-Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany

Irina Zdobnova

Affiliation AG Molecular Mechanisms of Plasticity, Department of Neurochemistry and Molecular Biology, Leibniz-Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany

Imbritt König

Affiliation AG Molecular Mechanisms of Plasticity, Department of Neurochemistry and Molecular Biology, Leibniz-Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany

Marco Landwehr

Current address: GEVO, Inc., Pasadena, California, United States of America

Affiliation AG Molecular Mechanisms of Plasticity, Department of Neurochemistry and Molecular Biology, Leibniz-Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany

Martin Kreutz

Affiliation AG Molecular Mechanisms of Plasticity, Department of Neurochemistry and Molecular Biology, Leibniz-Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany

Karl-Heinz Smalla

Affiliation AG Molecular Mechanisms of Plasticity, Department of Neurochemistry and Molecular Biology, Leibniz-Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany

Karin Richter

Affiliation Institute for Medical Neurobiology, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany

Peter Landgraf

Affiliation AG Molecular Mechanisms of Plasticity, Department of Neurochemistry and Molecular Biology, Leibniz-Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany

Carsten Reissner

Affiliation AG Molecular Mechanisms of Plasticity, Department of Neurochemistry and Molecular Biology, Leibniz-Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany

Tobias M Boeckers

Affiliation Institute for Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Werner Zuschratter

Affiliation AG Molecular Mechanisms of Plasticity, Department of Neurochemistry and Molecular Biology, Leibniz-Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany

Christina Spilker

Affiliation AG Molecular Mechanisms of Plasticity, Department of Neurochemistry and Molecular Biology, Leibniz-Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany

Constanze I Seidenbecher

Affiliation AG Molecular Mechanisms of Plasticity, Department of Neurochemistry and Molecular Biology, Leibniz-Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany

Craig C Garner

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Nancy Pritzker Laboratory, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Eckart D Gundelfinger

Affiliation AG Molecular Mechanisms of Plasticity, Department of Neurochemistry and Molecular Biology, Leibniz-Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany

Michael R Kreutz

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: kreutz@ifn-magdeburg.de

Affiliation AG Molecular Mechanisms of Plasticity, Department of Neurochemistry and Molecular Biology, Leibniz-Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

DCD, CIS, CCG, EDG, and MRK conceived and designed the experiments. DCD, AK, MM, IZ, IK, ML, MK, KHS, KR, PL, CR, CS, and MRK performed the experiments. TMB and WZ contributed reagents, materials/analysis tools. DCD, CIS, CCG, EDG, and MRK wrote the paper.