About the Authors

Barbara Fasulo

Affiliation Department of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Renate Deuring

Affiliation Department of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Magdalena Murawska

Current address: Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Institute for Molecular Biology and Tumor Research (IMT), Philipps-University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany

Maria Gause

Affiliation Edward A. Doisy Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Kristel M. Dorighi

Affiliation Department of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Cheri A. Schaaf

Affiliation Edward A. Doisy Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Dale Dorsett

Affiliation Edward A. Doisy Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Alexander Brehm

Affiliation Institute for Molecular Biology and Tumor Research (IMT), Philipps-University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany

John W. Tamkun

tamkun@biology.ucsc.edu

Affiliation Department of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BF RD MM MG KMD CAS DD AB JWT. Performed the experiments: BF RD MM MG KMD CAS. Analyzed the data: BF RD MM MG KMD CAS DD AB JWT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BF RD MM MG KMD CAS DD AB JWT. Wrote the paper: BF MG DD AB JWT.