About the Authors

Manyu Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Manyu Li, Sarah E. Wetzel-Strong

Affiliation Departments of Cell Biology and Physiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Sarah E. Wetzel-Strong

Contributed equally to this work with: Manyu Li, Sarah E. Wetzel-Strong

Affiliation Departments of Cell Biology and Physiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Xiaoyang Hua

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Stephen L. Tilley

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Erin Oswald

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Matthew F. Krummel

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Kathleen M. Caron

kathleen_Caron@med.unc.edu

Affiliations Departments of Cell Biology and Physiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ML XH MFK KMC. Performed the experiments: ML SEWS XH EO. Analyzed the data: ML SEWS XH SLT EO MFK KMC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SLT MFK KMC. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: SEWS KMC.