About the Authors

Timothy J. LaRocca

Contributed equally to this work with: Timothy J. LaRocca, Priyadarshini Pathak

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Priyadarshini Pathak

Contributed equally to this work with: Timothy J. LaRocca, Priyadarshini Pathak

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Salvatore Chiantia

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Alvaro Toledo

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

John R. Silvius

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Jorge L. Benach

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Erwin London

Erwin.London@stonybrook.edu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TJL PP EL. Performed the experiments: TJL PP AT. Analyzed the data: TJL PP SC EL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JRS EL JLB. Wrote the paper: TJL PP SC EL JRS.