About the Authors

Wei Wang

weiwang@uab.edu (WW); klkirk@uab.edu (KLK)

Affiliations Gregory Fleming James Cystic Fibrosis Research Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, 35294, United States of America, Department of Cell, Developmental, and Integrative Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, 35294, United States of America

Jeong S. Hong

Affiliations Gregory Fleming James Cystic Fibrosis Research Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, 35294, United States of America, Department of Cell, Developmental, and Integrative Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, 35294, United States of America

Andras Rab

Affiliation Gregory Fleming James Cystic Fibrosis Research Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, 35294, United States of America

Eric J. Sorscher

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 30322, United States of America

Kevin L. Kirk

weiwang@uab.edu (WW); klkirk@uab.edu (KLK)

Affiliations Gregory Fleming James Cystic Fibrosis Research Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, 35294, United States of America, Department of Cell, Developmental, and Integrative Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, 35294, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WW KK ES. Performed the experiments: WW JH AR. Analyzed the data: WW JH. Wrote the paper: KK WW ES.