About the Authors

Yoshimitsu Takahashi

Affiliation Laboratory of Gene Regulation and Development, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Stanimir Dulev

Affiliations Laboratory of Gene Regulation and Development, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, University of Plovdiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Xianpeng Liu

Affiliation Molecular Biology Department, Memorial Sloan Kettering Institute, New York, New York, United States of America

Natalie Jasmin Hiller

Current address: Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany

Affiliation The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

Xiaolan Zhao

Affiliation Molecular Biology Department, Memorial Sloan Kettering Institute, New York, New York, United States of America

Alexander Strunnikov

strunnik@mail.nih.gov

Affiliation Laboratory of Gene Regulation and Development, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YT AS. Performed the experiments: YT SD. Analyzed the data: YT SD XZ AS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XL NJH XZ. Wrote the paper: YT XZ AS.