About the Authors

Robert Ernst

Contributed equally to this work with: Robert Ernst, Jasper H. L. Claessen

Current address: Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany

Affiliation Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jasper H. L. Claessen

Contributed equally to this work with: Robert Ernst, Jasper H. L. Claessen

Affiliation Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Britta Mueller

Current address: Massachusetts General Hospital, Richard B. Simches Research Center-7, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Sumana Sanyal

Affiliation Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Eric Spooner

Affiliation Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Annemarthe G. van der Veen

Affiliation Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Oktay Kirak

Affiliation Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Christian D. Schlieker

Current address: Department of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Affiliation Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Wilhelm A. Weihofen

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Hidde L. Ploegh

ploegh@wi.mit.edu

Affiliations Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 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: RE JHC BM HLP. Performed the experiments: RE JHC BM SS ES AGvdV. Analyzed the data: RE JHC BM AGvdV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RE JHC BM SS ES OK CDS WAW HLP. Wrote the paper: RE HLP.