About the Authors

Maria Voutilainen

Affiliation Developmental Biology Program, Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Päivi H. Lindfors

Contributed equally to this work with: Päivi H. Lindfors, Ewelina Trela

Affiliation Developmental Biology Program, Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Ewelina Trela

Contributed equally to this work with: Päivi H. Lindfors, Ewelina Trela

Affiliation Developmental Biology Program, Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Darielle Lönnblad

Affiliation Developmental Biology Program, Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Vera Shirokova

Affiliation Developmental Biology Program, Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Teresa Elo

Affiliation Developmental Biology Program, Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Elisa Rysti

Affiliation Developmental Biology Program, Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Ruth Schmidt-Ullrich

Affiliation Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Pascal Schneider

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Lausanne, Epalinges, Switzerland

Marja L. Mikkola

marja.mikkola@helsinki.fi

Affiliation Developmental Biology Program, Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MV PHL ET MLM. Performed the experiments: MV PHL ET DL VS TE ER. Analyzed the data: MV PHL ET DL TE ER MLM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PS RSU. Wrote the paper: MV MLM.