About the Authors

Roza Selimyan

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Immunology, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Rachel M. Gerstein

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Irina Ivanova

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Immunology, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Patricia Precht

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Immunology, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Ramesh Subrahmanyam

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Immunology, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Thomas Perlot

Current address: Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria

Affiliation The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Children's Hospital, Immune Disease Institute and Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Frederick W. Alt

Affiliation The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Children's Hospital, Immune Disease Institute and Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ranjan Sen

senranja@grc.nia.nih.gov

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Immunology, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

The author(s) have made the following declarations about their contributions: Conceived and designed the experiments: RSelimyan, RSen. Performed the experiments: RSelimyan, II, PP. Analyzed the data: RSelimyan, RSen. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RMG, RSubrahmanyam, TP, FWA. Wrote the paper: RSelimyan, RSen.