About the Authors

Aviv Cohen

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Esther Weindling

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Efrat Rabinovich

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Iftach Nachman

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Shai Fuchs

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Silvia Chuartzman

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Lihi Gal

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Maya Schuldiner

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Shoshana Bar-Nun

shoshbn@tauex.tau.ac.il

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AC EW ER IN SF MS SBN. Performed the experiments: AC EW ER SF SC. Analyzed the data: AC IN LG SBN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IN MS SBN. Wrote the paper: AC SBN.