About the Authors

Mark A Verdecia

Current address: Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Affiliation Chemical Biology and Proteomics Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Robert M Larkin

Current address: MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Affiliation Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Jean-Luc Ferrer

Affiliation The Institut de Biologie Structurale, Grenoble, France

Roland Riek

Affiliation Chemical Biology and Proteomics Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Joanne Chory

Affiliation Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Joseph P Noel

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: noel@salk.edu

Affiliation Chemical Biology and Proteomics Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

MAV, RML, JLF, RR, JC, and JPN conceived and designed the experiments. MAV, RL, JLF, RR, and JC performed the experiments. MAV, RML, JLF, RR, JC, and JPN analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, and wrote the paper.