About the Authors

Iñigo Narvaiza

Affiliation Laboratory of Genetics, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Daniel C. Linfesty

Affiliation Laboratory of Genetics, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Benjamin N. Greener

Current address: University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Affiliation Laboratory of Genetics, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Yoshiyuki Hakata

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

David J. Pintel

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, University of Missouri–Columbia, School of Medicine, Life Sciences Center, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Eric Logue

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Nathaniel R. Landau

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Matthew D. Weitzman

weitzman@salk.edu

Affiliation Laboratory of Genetics, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IN YH DJP NRL MDW. Performed the experiments: IN DCL BNG YH EL. Analyzed the data: IN DCL BNG YH DJP NRL MDW. Wrote the paper: IN MDW.