About the Authors

Marion Delous

Contributed equally to this work with: Marion Delous, Chunyue Yin

marion.delous@ucsf.edu (MD); didier.stainier@ucsf.edu (DYRS)

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Program in Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, Liver Center and Diabetes Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Chunyue Yin

Contributed equally to this work with: Marion Delous, Chunyue Yin

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Program in Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, Liver Center and Diabetes Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Donghun Shin

Current address: Department of Developmental Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Program in Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, Liver Center and Diabetes Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Nikolay Ninov

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Program in Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, Liver Center and Diabetes Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Juliana Debrito Carten

Affiliations Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Embryology, The Carnegie Institution for Science, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Luyuan Pan

Affiliation Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Division of Basic Science, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Taylur P. Ma

Affiliation Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Division of Basic Science, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Steven A. Farber

Affiliations Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Embryology, The Carnegie Institution for Science, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Cecilia B. Moens

Affiliation Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Division of Basic Science, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Didier Y. R. Stainier

marion.delous@ucsf.edu (MD); didier.stainier@ucsf.edu (DYRS)

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Program in Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, Liver Center and Diabetes Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MD CY DYRS. Performed the experiments: MD CY DS LP TPM. Analyzed the data: MD CY DYRS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NN JDC SAF CBM. Wrote the paper: MD CY DYRS. Commented on the manuscript: DS NN JDC SAF CBM.