About the Authors

Yanhua Yao

‡ These authors contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, New York, United States of America

Scott Tsuchiyama

‡ These authors contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Buck Institute, Novato, California, United States of America

Ciyu Yang

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, New York, United States of America

Anne Laure Bulteau

Affiliation LCABIE UMR5254, Technopôle Hélioparc Pau Pyrénées, Pau, France

Chong He

Affiliation Buck Institute, Novato, California, United States of America

Brett Robison

Affiliation Buck Institute, Novato, California, United States of America

Mitsuhiro Tsuchiya

Affiliation Buck Institute, Novato, California, United States of America

Delana Miller

Affiliation Buck Institute, Novato, California, United States of America

Valeria Briones

Affiliation Buck Institute, Novato, California, United States of America

Krisztina Tar

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, New York, United States of America

Anahi Potrero

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, New York, United States of America

Bertrand Friguet

Affiliation Laboratoire de Biologie Cellulaire du Vieillissement, UR4-IFR83, Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, Paris, France

Brian K. Kennedy

marion.schmidt@einstein.yu.edu (MS); bkennedy@buckinstitute.org (BKK)

Affiliation Buck Institute, Novato, California, United States of America

Marion Schmidt

marion.schmidt@einstein.yu.edu (MS); bkennedy@buckinstitute.org (BKK)

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MS BKK. Performed the experiments: YY ST CY ALB CH BR MT DM VB KT AP. Analyzed the data: MS BKK BF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YY ST BR KT CY AP. Wrote the paper: MS BKK BR YY.