About the Authors

Tania Bose

Affiliation Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

Kenneth K. Lee

Affiliation Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

Shuai Lu

Affiliations Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Baoshan Xu

Affiliation Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

Bethany Harris

Affiliation Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

Brian Slaughter

Affiliation Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

Jay Unruh

Affiliation Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

Alexander Garrett

Affiliation Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

William McDowell

Affiliation Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

Andrew Box

Affiliation Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

Hua Li

Affiliation Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

Allison Peak

Affiliation Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

Sree Ramachandran

Affiliation Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

Chris Seidel

Affiliation Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

Jennifer L. Gerton

jeg@stowers.org

Affiliations Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TB KKL SL BX BH BS JU SR JLG. Performed the experiments: TB KKL SL BX BH BS JU WM AP SR JLG. Analyzed the data: BS JU AG CS JLG WM TB KKL SL BX BH AB HL. Wrote the paper: JLG TB KKL.