About the Authors

Melanie F. Kho

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

Audrey Bellier

Contributed equally to this work with: Audrey Bellier, Venkatasamy Balasubramani

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

Venkatasamy Balasubramani

Contributed equally to this work with: Audrey Bellier, Venkatasamy Balasubramani

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

Yan Hu

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

Wayne Hsu

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

Christina Nielsen-LeRoux

Affiliation Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), UMR 1319 MICALIS, Guyancourt, France

Shauna M. McGillivray

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Biology, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas, United States of America

Victor Nizet

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Raffi V. Aroian

raroian@ucsd.edu

Affiliation Division of Biological Sciences, 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: MFK RVA. Performed the experiments: MFK AB VB YH. Analyzed the data: MFK AB RVA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WH CN-L SMM VN. Wrote the paper: RVA.