About the Authors

Weise Chang

Affiliation National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, NIH, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Zhengshi Lin

Affiliation National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, NIH, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Holger Kulessa

Affiliations National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, NIH, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Molecular Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Centre, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Jean Hebert

Affiliations Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Molecular Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Brigid L. M. Hogan

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Centre, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Doris K. Wu

wud@nidcd.nih.gov

Affiliation National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, NIH, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WC DW. Performed the experiments: WC ZL DW. Analyzed the data: WC DW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HK JH BH. Wrote the paper: DW. Partially contributed to writing the paper: WC. Performed critical editing of the paper: BH.