About the Authors

Anny Caceres Treat

Contributed equally to this work with: Anny Caceres Treat, David S. Wheeler

‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Laboratory for GPCR Biology, Department of Pharmacology & Chemical Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

David S. Wheeler

Contributed equally to this work with: Anny Caceres Treat, David S. Wheeler

‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliations Laboratory for GPCR Biology, Department of Pharmacology & Chemical Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Medical Scientist Training Program, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Donna B. Stolz

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Michael Tsang

Affiliation Department of Developmental Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Peter A. Friedman

Affiliations Laboratory for GPCR Biology, Department of Pharmacology & Chemical Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Structural Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Guillermo Romero

ggr@pitt.edu

Affiliation Laboratory for GPCR Biology, Department of Pharmacology & Chemical Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DSW GR PAF. Performed the experiments: ACT DSW DBS MT GR. Analyzed the data: ACT DSW GR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DBS PAF MT GR. Wrote the paper: ACT PAF GR.