About the Authors

Kimberley J. Evason

Kimberley.Evason@ucsfmedctr.org (KJE); Andrei.Goga@ucsf.edu (AG); Didier.Stainier@mpi-bn.mpg.de (DYRS)

Affiliations Department of Pathology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Programs in Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, Genetics and Human Genetics, Diabetes Center, Institute for Regeneration Medicine and the Liver Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Macrina T. Francisco

Affiliations Department of Pathology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Cell & Tissue Biology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Vladislava Juric

Affiliation The George Williams Hooper Research Foundation, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Sanjeev Balakrishnan

Affiliation Department of Cell & Tissue Biology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Maria del Pilar Lopez Pazmino

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Programs in Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, Genetics and Human Genetics, Diabetes Center, Institute for Regeneration Medicine and the Liver Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

John D. Gordan

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Sanjay Kakar

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Jan Spitsbergen

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Andrei Goga

Kimberley.Evason@ucsfmedctr.org (KJE); Andrei.Goga@ucsf.edu (AG); Didier.Stainier@mpi-bn.mpg.de (DYRS)

Affiliations Department of Cell & Tissue Biology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Didier Y. R. Stainier

Kimberley.Evason@ucsfmedctr.org (KJE); Andrei.Goga@ucsf.edu (AG); Didier.Stainier@mpi-bn.mpg.de (DYRS)

Current address: Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Bad Nauheim, Germany

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Programs in Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, Genetics and Human Genetics, Diabetes Center, Institute for Regeneration Medicine and the Liver Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

VJ is currently an employee of Gilead Sciences. Otherwise, the authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KJE JDG AG DYRS. Performed the experiments: KJE MTF VJ MdPLP SK JS. Analyzed the data: KJE MTF VJ SB MdPLP JDG SK JS AG DYRS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KJE VJ JDG AG DYRS. Wrote the paper: KJE. Critically reviewed and edited the manuscript: MTF VJ MdPLP SB JDG SK JS AG DYRS.