About the Authors

Gaëlle Lettier

Affiliation Center for Microbial Biotechnology, BioCentrum-DTU, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

Qi Feng

Contributed equally to this work with: Qi Feng, Adriana Antúnez de Mayolo

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Adriana Antúnez de Mayolo

Contributed equally to this work with: Qi Feng, Adriana Antúnez de Mayolo

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Naz Erdeniz

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Robert J. D Reid

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Michael Lisby

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Institute of Molecular Biology and Physiology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Uffe H Mortensen

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: um@biocentrum.dtu.dk

Affiliation Center for Microbial Biotechnology, BioCentrum-DTU, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

Rodney Rothstein

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

GL, RJDR, ML, UHM, and RR conceived and designed the experiments. GL, QF, AAdM, NE, RJDR, ML, and UHM performed the experiments. GL, QF, AAdM, NE, RJDR, ML, and UHM analyzed the data. GL, QF, AAdM, and UHM contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. GL, QF, ML, UHM, and RR wrote the paper.