About the Authors

Robert C. C. Mercer

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Department of Medicine (Neurology), University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Nathalie Daude

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation

Affiliation Centre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Lyudmyla Dorosh

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation

Affiliations National Research Council of Canada, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Ze-Lin Fu

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Centre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Department of Biochemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Charles E. Mays

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Centre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Hristina Gapeshina

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Centre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Serene L. Wohlgemuth

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation

Affiliation Centre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Claudia Y. Acevedo-Morantes

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Centre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Jing Yang

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Centre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Neil R. Cashman

Roles Resources

Affiliation Brain Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Michael B. Coulthart

Roles Resources

Affiliation Canadian Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance System, Centre for Foodborne, Environmental and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Dawn M. Pearson

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Jeffrey T. Joseph

Roles Resources

Affiliation Hotchkiss Brain Institute and Calgary Laboratory Services, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Holger Wille

Roles Resources

Affiliations Centre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Department of Biochemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Jiri G. Safar

Roles Resources

Affiliation Departments of Pathology and Neurology, School of Medicine Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Gerard H. Jansen

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliations Canadian Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance System, Centre for Foodborne, Environmental and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Division of Anatomical Pathology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Maria Stepanova

Roles Conceptualization, Resources

Affiliations National Research Council of Canada, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Brian D. Sykes

Roles Conceptualization, Resources

Affiliations Centre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Department of Biochemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

David Westaway

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

david.westaway@ualberta.ca

Affiliations Centre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Department of Medicine (Neurology), University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Department of Biochemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.