About the Authors

Yoshiharu Yamaichi

Affiliation Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Stéphane Duigou

Current address: CNRS, Centre de Génétique Moléculaire, UPR 2167, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Affiliation Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Elizabeth A. Shakhnovich

Affiliation Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Matthew K. Waldor

mwaldor@rics.bwh.harvard.edu

Affiliation Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YY SD EAS MKW. Performed the experiments: YY SD EAS. Analyzed the data: YY SD EAS MKW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YY SD. Wrote the paper: YY SD MKW.