About the Authors

Mark S Cragg

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: msc@soton.ac.uk (MSC); strasser@wehi.edu.au (AS)

Current address: Cancer Sciences Division, Southampton University, Southampton, United Kingdom

Affiliation The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia

Junya Kuroda

Current address: Division of Hematology and Oncology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

Affiliation The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia

Hamsa Puthalakath

Current address: Department of Biochemistry, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia

Affiliation The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia

David C. S Huang

Affiliation The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia

Andreas Strasser

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: msc@soton.ac.uk (MSC); strasser@wehi.edu.au (AS)

Affiliation The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

MSC initiated the studies, performed and analyzed the majority of the experiments, and wrote the manuscript with AS. JK provided crucial reagents and assisted in the experiments. HP and DCSH provided crucial reagents and supervised several experiments. AS initiated the studies, helped analyze the data and wrote the manuscript with MSC.