About the Authors

Eran Even-Tov

Contributed equally to this work with: Eran Even-Tov, Shira Omer Bendori

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Shira Omer Bendori

Contributed equally to this work with: Eran Even-Tov, Shira Omer Bendori

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Julie Valastyan

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

Xiaobo Ke

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

Shaul Pollak

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Tasneem Bareia

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Ishay Ben-Zion

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Bonnie L. Bassler

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States of America

Avigdor Eldar

avigdor@tau.ac.il

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EET BLB AE. Performed the experiments: EET SOB JV XK. Analyzed the data: EET SOB XK SP IBZ BLB AE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TB SP IBZ. Wrote the paper: EET SOB SP IBZ BLB AE.