About the Authors

Yanlin Fan

Contributed equally to this work with: Yanlin Fan, Yusong R. Guo

Affiliation Department of BioSciences, Rice University, MS-140, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Yusong R. Guo

Contributed equally to this work with: Yanlin Fan, Yusong R. Guo

Affiliation Department of BioSciences, Rice University, MS-140, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Wang Yuan

Affiliation Department of BioSciences, Rice University, MS-140, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Ying Zhou

Affiliation Department of BioSciences, Rice University, MS-140, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Matthew V. Holt

Affiliation Verna & Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX, United States of America

Tao Wang

Affiliation Verna & Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX, United States of America

Borries Demeler

Affiliation The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Department of Biochemistry, MC 7760, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Nicolas L. Young

Affiliations Verna & Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX, United States of America, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX, United States of America

Weiwei Zhong

wz8@rice.edu (WZ); ytao@rice.edu (YJT)

Affiliation Department of BioSciences, Rice University, MS-140, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Yizhi J. Tao

wz8@rice.edu (WZ); ytao@rice.edu (YJT)

Affiliation Department of BioSciences, Rice University, MS-140, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: YJT WZ. Data curation: YJT WZ. Formal analysis: YF YRG WY YZ BD NLY WZ YJT. Funding acquisition: YJT WZ. Investigation: YF YRG WY YZ MVH TW BD NLY WZ YJT. Methodology: YF YRG WY BD NLY WZ YT. Project administration: WZ YJT. Supervision: YJT WZ. Visualization: YF YRG WY WZ YJT. Writing – original draft: YF YRG WY BD NLY WZ YJT.