About the Authors

Brian J. Belmont

Affiliation Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jacquin C. Niles

jcniles@mit.edu

Affiliation Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal’s policy and have the following conflict: B.J.B. and J.C.N. are co-inventors in U.S. Patent No. 2011/0245326A1 “Post-transcriptional regulation of RNA-related processes using encoded protein-binding RNA aptamers” with two other co-inventors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BJB JCN. Performed the experiments: BJB. Analyzed the data: BJB JCN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BJB. Wrote the paper: BJB JCN.