About the Authors

Courtney J Haycraft

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Boglarka Banizs

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Yesim Aydin-Son

Affiliation University of Tennessee Oak Ridge National Laboratory Graduate School of Genome Science and Technology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Qihong Zhang

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Edward J Michaud

Affiliations University of Tennessee Oak Ridge National Laboratory Graduate School of Genome Science and Technology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America , Life Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America

Bradley K Yoder

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: byoder@uab.edu

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

CJH and BKY conceived and designed the experiments. CJH, BB, YAS, QZ, and BKY performed the experiments. CJH, YAS, EJM, and BKY analyzed the data. CJH and BKY wrote the paper.