About the Authors

Isao Kurihara

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Dong-Kee Lee

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Fabrice G Petit

¤ Current address: Endocrinologie et Génétique de la Reproduction et du Développement, INSERM U782–Hôpital Antoine Béclère, Clamart, France

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Jaewook Jeong

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Kevin Lee

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

John P Lydon

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Francesco J DeMayo

Affiliations Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America , Program of Developmental Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Ming-Jer Tsai

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: mtsai@bcm.tmc.edu (MJT); stsai@bcm.tmc.edu (SYT)

Affiliations Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America , Program of Developmental Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Sophia Y Tsai

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: mtsai@bcm.tmc.edu (MJT); stsai@bcm.tmc.edu (SYT)

Affiliations Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America , Program of Developmental Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

IK, DKL, FGP, FJDM, MJT, and SYT conceived and designed the experiments. IK, DKL, and FGP performed the experiments. IK, DKL, FGP, JJ, KL, FJDM, MJT, and SYT analyzed the data. All authors contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. IK, JPL, FJDM, MJT, and SYT wrote the paper.