About the Authors

Jyoti K Jaiswal

Affiliation Department of Cellular Biophysics, Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

Sabyasachi Chakrabarti

Affiliation Section of Microbial Pathogenesis and Department of Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Norma W Andrews

Affiliation Section of Microbial Pathogenesis and Department of Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Sanford M Simon

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: simon@mail.rockefeller.edu

Affiliation Department of Cellular Biophysics, Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no conflicts of interest exist.

Author Contributions

The work presented here was conceived and jointly written by JKJ, SMS, and NAW. JKJ carried out the experiments and analyzed data together with SMS. SC generated the Syt VII KO mice and prepared the cells used in this study.