About the Authors

Zhikang Qian

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Van Leung-Pineda

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Baoqin Xuan

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Helen Piwnica-Worms

Affiliations Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Dong Yu

dongyu@borcim.wustl.edu

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZQ VLP HPW DY. Performed the experiments: ZQ VLP BX. Analyzed the data: ZQ VLP BX HPW DY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HPW. Wrote the paper: ZQ DY.