About the Authors

Eli Arama

¤ Current address: Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Affiliations Strang Laboratory of Cancer Research, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America , Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

Maya Bader

Affiliations Strang Laboratory of Cancer Research, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America , Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

Gabrielle E Rieckhof

Affiliations Strang Laboratory of Cancer Research, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America , Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

Hermann Steller

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: steller@rockefeller.edu

Affiliations Strang Laboratory of Cancer Research, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America , Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

EA and HS conceived and designed the experiments, analyzed the data, and wrote the paper. EA performed the experiments, except for Fig. 10 which was designed and performed by MB. MB and GER participated in the genetic screens. MB helped with the experiments shown in Figs. 1I-J, 3D, 5, and S5.