About the Authors

Ana Hrus

Affiliation Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Novartis Research Foundation, Basel, Switzerland

Gordon Lau

Affiliation Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Novartis Research Foundation, Basel, Switzerland

Harald Hutter

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Susanne Schenk

Affiliation Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Novartis Research Foundation, Basel, Switzerland

Jacqueline Ferralli

Affiliation Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Novartis Research Foundation, Basel, Switzerland

Marianne Brown-Luedi

Affiliation Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Novartis Research Foundation, Basel, Switzerland

Ruth Chiquet-Ehrismann

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: Ruth.Chiquet@fmi.ch

Affiliation Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Novartis Research Foundation, Basel, Switzerland

Stefano Canevascini

Affiliation Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Novartis Research Foundation, Basel, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SC RC AH. Performed the experiments: SC AH GL JF MB. Analyzed the data: SC RC AH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SS HH. Wrote the paper: SC AH. Other: Technical assistance with cell immunostaining and antibodies: JF SS MB.