About the Authors

Alexander Samoshkin

Contributed equally to this work with: Alexander Samoshkin, Alexei Arnaoutov, Lars E. T. Jansen

Affiliation Unit on Chromosome Structure and Function, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), Laboratory of Gene Regulation and Development (LGRD), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Alexei Arnaoutov

Contributed equally to this work with: Alexander Samoshkin, Alexei Arnaoutov, Lars E. T. Jansen

Affiliation Section on Cell Cycle Regulation, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), Laboratory of Gene Regulation and Development (LGRD), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Lars E. T. Jansen

Contributed equally to this work with: Alexander Samoshkin, Alexei Arnaoutov, Lars E. T. Jansen

Current address: Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal

Affiliation Ludwig Institute For Cancer Research, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Ilia Ouspenski

Affiliation Unit on Chromosome Structure and Function, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), Laboratory of Gene Regulation and Development (LGRD), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Louis Dye

Affiliation National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), Laboratory of Functional and Molecular Imaging, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Tatiana Karpova

Affiliation Fluorescence Imaging Facility, National Cancer Institute (NCI), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

James McNally

Affiliation Fluorescence Imaging Facility, National Cancer Institute (NCI), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Mary Dasso

Affiliation Section on Cell Cycle Regulation, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), Laboratory of Gene Regulation and Development (LGRD), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Don W. Cleveland

Affiliation Ludwig Institute For Cancer Research, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Alexander Strunnikov

strunnik@mail.nih.gov

Affiliation Unit on Chromosome Structure and Function, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), Laboratory of Gene Regulation and Development (LGRD), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AS AA IO AS. Performed the experiments: AS AA LJ IO. Analyzed the data: AS AA LJ IO AS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LD TK JM MD DC. Wrote the paper: AS AA LJ MD DC AS.