About the Authors

Robert P. Shivers

Contributed equally to this work with: Robert P. Shivers, Daniel J. Pagano

Current address: The Commonwealth Medical College, Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Daniel J. Pagano

Contributed equally to this work with: Robert P. Shivers, Daniel J. Pagano

Affiliation Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Tristan Kooistra

Affiliation Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Claire E. Richardson

Affiliation Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Kirthi C. Reddy

Affiliation Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Janelle K. Whitney

Affiliation Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Odile Kamanzi

Affiliation Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Kunihiro Matsumoto

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

Naoki Hisamoto

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

Dennis H. Kim

dhkim@mit.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RPS DJP TK CER KCR DHK. Performed the experiments: RPS DJP TK CER KCR JKW OK NH DHK. Analyzed the data: RPS DJP TK CER KCR KM NH DHK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KM NH. Wrote the paper: RPS DJP DHK.