About the Authors

Thomas Bartman

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Divisions of Neonatology, Pulmonary Biology, and Developmental Biology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Emily C Walsh

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Kuo-Kuang Wen

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Melissa McKane

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Jihui Ren

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Jonathan Alexander

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Peter A Rubenstein

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Didier Y. R Stainier

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: didier_stainier@biochem.ucsf.edu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Author Contributions

TB, PAR, and DYRS conceived and designed the experiments. TB, K-KW, MM, and JR performed the experiments. TB, ECW, JA, PAR, and DYRS analyzed the data. ECW and JA contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. TB, PAR, and DYRS wrote the paper.