About the Authors

Brett E. Crawford

Contributed equally to this work with: Brett E. Crawford, Omai B. Garner

Affiliations Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Omai B. Garner

Contributed equally to this work with: Brett E. Crawford, Omai B. Garner

Affiliations Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Joseph R. Bishop

Affiliation Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

David Y. Zhang

Affiliation Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Kevin T. Bush

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Sanjay K. Nigam

snigam@ucsd.edu (SKN); jesko@ucsd.edu (JDE)

Affiliations Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Jeffrey D. Esko

snigam@ucsd.edu (SKN); jesko@ucsd.edu (JDE)

Affiliation Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California San Diego, 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: BEC OBG JDE. Performed the experiments: BEC OBG JRB DYZ. Analyzed the data: BEC OBG KTB SN JDE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JRB. Wrote the paper: BEC OBG SN JDE.