About the Authors

Michelle Bui

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

Elena Dalla Benetta

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

Yuemei Dong

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Yunchong Zhao

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

Ting Yang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

Ming Li

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

Igor A. Antoshechkin

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America

Anna Buchman

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Verily Life Sciences, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

Vanessa Bottino-Rojas

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Anthony A. James

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America, Department of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Michael W. Perry

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

George Dimopoulos

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Omar S. Akbari

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

oakbari@ucsd.edu

Affiliation Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: O.S.A. is a founder of both Agragene, Inc. and Synvect, Inc. with equity interest. The terms of this arrangement have been reviewed and approved by the University of California, San Diego in accordance with its conflict of interest policies. The authors report no other conflict of interest.