About the Authors

Junbin Hu

Contributed equally to this work with: Junbin Hu, Jingzhi Li

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Jingzhi Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Junbin Hu, Jingzhi Li

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Xinguo Qian

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Vlad Denic

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Bingdong Sha

bdsha@uab.edu

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VD BS. Performed the experiments: JH JL XQ. Analyzed the data: JH JL BS. Wrote the paper: BS.