About the Authors

Yaw Shin Ooi

Contributed equally to this work with: Yaw Shin Ooi, Katie M. Stiles, Catherine Y. Liu

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, New York, United States of America

Katie M. Stiles

Contributed equally to this work with: Yaw Shin Ooi, Katie M. Stiles, Catherine Y. Liu

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, New York, United States of America

Catherine Y. Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yaw Shin Ooi, Katie M. Stiles, Catherine Y. Liu

Current address: Department of Ophthalmology, University of California-Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America.

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, New York, United States of America

Gwen M. Taylor

Current address: Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America.

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, New York, United States of America

Margaret Kielian

margaret.kielian@einstein.yu.edu

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YSO KMS CYL MK. Performed the experiments: YSO KMS CYL. Analyzed the data: YSO KMS CYL MK. Wrote the paper: YSO KMS CYL MK. Constructed SINV-Luc and optimized conditions for the initial SINV screen: GMT.