About the Authors

Jianhua Zhao

Contributed equally to this work with: Jianhua Zhao, Ksenia Beyrakhova

Current address: Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Affiliations The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Ksenia Beyrakhova

Contributed equally to this work with: Jianhua Zhao, Ksenia Beyrakhova

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Yao Liu

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Claudia P. Alvarez

Affiliations Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Chemical and Physical Sciences, University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

Stephanie A. Bueler

Affiliation The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Li Xu

Current address: Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Caishuang Xu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Michal T. Boniecki

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Voula Kanelis

Affiliations Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Chemical and Physical Sciences, University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, Department of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Zhao-Qing Luo

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Miroslaw Cygler

john.rubinstein@utoronto.ca (JLR); miroslaw.cygler@usask.ca (MC)

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

John L. Rubinstein

john.rubinstein@utoronto.ca (JLR); miroslaw.cygler@usask.ca (MC)

Affiliations The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JLR. Data curation: JZ. Formal analysis: JZ KB YL. Funding acquisition: JZ CPA VK ZQL MC JLR. Investigation: JZ KB YL CPA SAB CX MTB LX. Methodology: JZ KB MC JLR ZQL YL VK. Project administration: JLR. Resources: JLR MC VK ZQL. Software: JZ JLR. Supervision: JLR MC ZQL VK. Validation: JZ KB. Visualization: JZ JLR. Writing – original draft: JZ JLR. Writing – review & editing: JZ JLR KB MC VK CPA ZQL.