About the Authors

Audrey Bellier

Affiliation Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Chang-Shi Chen

Current address: Institute of Basic Medical Science, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Affiliation Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Cheng-Yuan Kao

Affiliation Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Hediye N. Cinar

Affiliation United States Food and Drug Administration, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Division of Virulence Assessment, Laurel, Maryland, United States of America

Raffi V. Aroian

raroian@ucsd.edu

Affiliation Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AB CSC CYK RVA. Performed the experiments: AB CSC CYK. Analyzed the data: AB RVA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HNC. Wrote the paper: AB RVA.