About the Authors

Xin Meng

Contributed equally to this work with: Xin Meng, Gongpu Zhao, Ernest Yufenyuy

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

Gongpu Zhao

Contributed equally to this work with: Xin Meng, Gongpu Zhao, Ernest Yufenyuy

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

Ernest Yufenyuy

Contributed equally to this work with: Xin Meng, Gongpu Zhao, Ernest Yufenyuy

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Danxia Ke

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

Jiying Ning

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

Maria DeLucia

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

Jinwoo Ahn

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

Angela M. Gronenborn

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

Christopher Aiken

chris.aiken@vanderbilt.edu (CA); pez7@pitt.edu (PZ)

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Peijun Zhang

chris.aiken@vanderbilt.edu (CA); pez7@pitt.edu (PZ)

Affiliation Department of Structural Biology, University of 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: PZ CA. Performed the experiments: XM GZ EY DK JN MD. Analyzed the data: XM GZ EY JA CA PZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XM GZ EY JA CA PZ. Wrote the paper: XM GZ AMG CA PZ.