About the Authors

Sara Cherry

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: cherrys@mail.med.upenn.edu

Affiliation University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Amit Kunte

Affiliation University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Hui Wang

Affiliation Harvard Medical School, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Carolyn Coyne

Affiliation Children's Hospital of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Robert B Rawson

Affiliation University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Norbert Perrimon

Affiliation Harvard Medical School, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

SC conceived, designed, and analyzed the experiments and wrote the manuscript. SC and HW performed the experiments. AK and RBR contributed reagents and data for Figure 5. CC generated the data for Figure 6. NP contributed to experimental design and the drafting of the manuscript.