About the Authors

Lifen Wang

Affiliation Buck Institute for Research on Aging, Novato, California, United States of America

Hyung Don Ryoo

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Yanyan Qi

Affiliation Buck Institute for Research on Aging, Novato, California, United States of America

Heinrich Jasper

hjasper@buckinstitute.org

Affiliation Buck Institute for Research on Aging, Novato, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LW HJ. Performed the experiments: LW YQ. Analyzed the data: LW HDR HJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LW HDR HJ. Wrote the paper: LW HDR HJ.