About the Authors

Smarajit Polley

Contributed equally to this work with: Smarajit Polley, De-Bin Huang, Arthur V. Hauenstein

Affiliation Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California–San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

De-Bin Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Smarajit Polley, De-Bin Huang, Arthur V. Hauenstein

Affiliation Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California–San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Arthur V. Hauenstein

Contributed equally to this work with: Smarajit Polley, De-Bin Huang, Arthur V. Hauenstein

Affiliation Structural Biochemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America

Amanda J. Fusco

Affiliation Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California–San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Xiangyang Zhong

Affiliation Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California–San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Don Vu

Affiliation Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California–San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Bärbel Schröfelbauer

Affiliations Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California–San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Signaling Systems Laboratory, University of California–San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Youngchang Kim

Affiliation Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, United States of America

Alexander Hoffmann

Affiliations Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California–San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Signaling Systems Laboratory, University of California–San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Inder M. Verma

Affiliation Laboratory of Genetics, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Gourisankar Ghosh

gghosh@ucsd.edu (GG); thuxford@mail.sdsu.edu (TH)

Affiliation Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California–San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Tom Huxford

gghosh@ucsd.edu (GG); thuxford@mail.sdsu.edu (TH)

Affiliation Structural Biochemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, 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: SP AVH AH IMV GG TH. Performed the experiments: SP DH AVH AJF XZ DV BS YK. Analyzed the data: SP DH AVH YK AH GG TH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SP DH AVH AJF XZ DV BS YK. Wrote the paper: SP AVH GG TH.