About the Authors

Carson C. Chow

carsonc@mail.nih.gov (CCC); stoneys@helix.nih.gov (SSS)

‡ CCC and KKF are co-first authors.

Affiliation Mathematical Biology Section, NIDDK/LBM, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Kelsey K. Finn

Current address: Harvard Medical School, Jeffrey Modell Immunology Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

‡ CCC and KKF are co-first authors.

Affiliation Steroid Hormones Section, NIDDK/LERB, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Geoffery B. Storchan

Affiliation Steroid Hormones Section, NIDDK/LERB, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Xinping Lu

Affiliation Steroid Hormones Section, NIDDK/LERB, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Xiaoyan Sheng

Current address: Department of Molecular Biology, Dorris Neuroscience Center, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Affiliation Steroid Hormones Section, NIDDK/LERB, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

S. Stoney Simons Jr.

carsonc@mail.nih.gov (CCC); stoneys@helix.nih.gov (SSS)

Affiliation Steroid Hormones Section, NIDDK/LERB, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SSS CCC. Performed the experiments: KKF GBS XL XS SSS. Analyzed the data: CCC KKF SSS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CCC KKF GBS SSS. Wrote the paper: CCC SSS. Performed theoretical analysis: CCC.