About the Authors

Wen-bin Ou

ouwb75@gmail.com (WO); Khorana@mit.edu (HGK)

Current address: Yangtze Delta Region Institute of Tsinghua University Jiaxing, ZheJiang, People's Republic of China

Affiliation Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Tingfang Yi

Affiliation Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jong-Myoung Kim

Current address: Department of Aquaculture College of Fisheries Sciences, PuKyong National University, Busan, Republic of Korea

Affiliation Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

H. Gobind Khorana

ouwb75@gmail.com (WO); Khorana@mit.edu (HGK)

Affiliation Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WO J-MK HGK. Performed the experiments: WO TY J-MK. Analyzed the data: WO TY J-MK HGK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WO TY J-MK HGK. Wrote the paper: WO.