About the Authors

Yan Hu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yan Hu, Bin Zhan

Affiliation Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Bin Zhan

Contributed equally to this work with: Yan Hu, Bin Zhan

bzhan@bcm.edu (YH); raroian@ucsd.edu (RVA)

Affiliation Section of Tropical Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Brian Keegan

Affiliation Section of Tropical Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Ying Y. Yiu

Affiliation Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Melanie M. Miller

Affiliation Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Kathryn Jones

Affiliation Section of Tropical Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Raffi V. Aroian

bzhan@bcm.edu (YH); raroian@ucsd.edu (RVA)

Affiliation Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YH BZ RVA. Performed the experiments: YH BZ BK YYY MMM KJ. Analyzed the data: YH BZ RVA. Wrote the paper: RVA.