About the Authors

Emmanuel Boucrot

Contributed equally to this work with: Emmanuel Boucrot, Saveez Saffarian

Current address: MRC-Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School and Immune Disease Institute at Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Saveez Saffarian

Contributed equally to this work with: Emmanuel Boucrot, Saveez Saffarian

Current address: Department of Physics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School and Immune Disease Institute at Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Rongying Zhang

Current address: Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of the Ministry of Education, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School and Immune Disease Institute at Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Tomas Kirchhausen

kirchhausen@crystal.harvard.edu

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School and Immune Disease Institute at Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EB SS TK. Performed the experiments: EB SS RZ. Analyzed the data: EB SS TK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SS. Wrote the paper: EB TK.