About the Authors

Amit P. Bhavsar

Affiliations Michael Smith Laboratories, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Medical Genetics, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Nat F. Brown

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Centre for High-Throughput Biology, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Jan Stoepel

Affiliations Michael Smith Laboratories, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Marcel Wiermer

Current address: Department of Plant Cell Biology, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Julia-Lermontowa-Weg 337077 Goettingen Germany.

Affiliation Michael Smith Laboratories, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Dale D. O. Martin

Affiliations Department of Medical Genetics, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Karolynn J. Hsu

Affiliation Michael Smith Laboratories, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Koshi Imami

Affiliation Centre for High-Throughput Biology, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Colin J. Ross

Affiliations Department of Medical Genetics, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Pediatrics, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Michael R. Hayden

Affiliations Department of Medical Genetics, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Leonard J. Foster

Affiliations Michael Smith Laboratories, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Centre for High-Throughput Biology, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Xin Li

Affiliations Michael Smith Laboratories, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Botany, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Phil Hieter

Affiliations Michael Smith Laboratories, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Medical Genetics, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

B. Brett Finlay

bfinlay@msl.ubc.ca

Affiliations Michael Smith Laboratories, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: APB NFB JS MW DDOM KI. Performed the experiments: APB NFB JS DDOM KJH. Analyzed the data: APB NFB JS MW DDOM KI. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CJR MRH LJF XL PH BBF. Wrote the manuscript: APB NFB JS MW DDOM CJR LJF XL PH BBF.