About the Authors

Benjamin R. Myers

Affiliation Department of Physiology; University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Yaron M. Sigal

Affiliation Department of Physiology; University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

David Julius

julius@cmp.ucsf.edu

Affiliation Department of Physiology; University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BRM YMS DJ. Performed the experiments: BRM YMS. Analyzed the data: BRM YMS. Wrote the paper: BRM DJ.