About the Authors

Rafael Mattera

Contributed equally to this work with: Rafael Mattera, Ginny G. Farías

Affiliation Cell Biology and Metabolism Program, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Ginny G. Farías

Contributed equally to this work with: Rafael Mattera, Ginny G. Farías

Affiliation Cell Biology and Metabolism Program, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Gonzalo A. Mardones

Current address: Instituto de Fisiología, Facultad de Medicina, and Centro de Investigación Sur-Austral en Enfermedades del Sistema Nervioso, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile

Affiliation Cell Biology and Metabolism Program, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Juan S. Bonifacino

juan@helix.nih.gov

Affiliation Cell Biology and Metabolism Program, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RM GGF JSB. Performed the experiments: RM GGF. Analyzed the data: RM GGF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RM GGF GAM. Wrote the paper: RM JSB.