About the Authors

Hongyin Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Hongyin Wang, Lucas B. Carey

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Lucas B. Carey

Contributed equally to this work with: Hongyin Wang, Lucas B. Carey

Affiliation Graduate Program in Genetics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Ying Cai

Affiliation Graduate Program in Molecular and Cellular Biology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Herman Wijnen

Current address: Department of Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Bruce Futcher

bfutcher@ms.cc.sunysb.edu

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

The author(s) have made the following declarations about their contributions: Conceived and designed the experiments: LBC HW BF. Performed the experiments: HW LBC YC HW. Analyzed the data: LBC BF. Wrote the paper: BF.