About the Authors

Gordon Ng

Contributed equally to this work with: Gordon Ng, Curtis G. S. Tom

Affiliation Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Sinsheimer Laboratories, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Curtis G. S. Tom

Contributed equally to this work with: Gordon Ng, Curtis G. S. Tom

Affiliation Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Sinsheimer Laboratories, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Angela S. Park

Affiliation Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Sinsheimer Laboratories, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Lounis Zenad

Affiliation Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Sinsheimer Laboratories, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Robert A. Ludwig

rludwig@ucsc.edu

Affiliation Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Sinsheimer Laboratories, 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: RAL. Performed the experiments: GN CT AP LZ RAL. Analyzed the data: GN CT AP LZ RAL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RAL. Wrote the paper: RAL.