About the Authors

Swapnalee Sarmah

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Genetic Medicine and Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Alejandro Barrallo-Gimeno

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Division of Genetic Medicine and Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Developmental Biology, Institute Biology I, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

David B. Melville

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Genetic Medicine and Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Jacek Topczewski

Current address: Department of Pediatrics, CMRC, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Lilianna Solnica-Krezel

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Ela W. Knapik

ela.knapik@vanderbilt.edu

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Division of Genetic Medicine and Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Developmental Biology, Institute Biology I, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SS EWK. Performed the experiments: SS ABG DBM EWK. Analyzed the data: SS ABG DBM EWK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JT LSK. Wrote the paper: SS EWK. Corrected manuscript drafts: EWK SS ABG DBM JT LSK.