About the Authors

Bing Sun

Contributed equally to this work with: Bing Sun, Haram Kim

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliations RNA Therapeutics Institute, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester,United States of America, Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States of America

Haram Kim

Contributed equally to this work with: Bing Sun, Haram Kim

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Craig C. Mello

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliations RNA Therapeutics Institute, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester,United States of America, Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States of America

James R. Priess

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

jpriess@fredhutch.org

Affiliation Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.