About the Authors

Howard Chia-Hao Chang

Contributed equally to this work with: Howard Chia-Hao Chang, Douglas N. Dimlich, Takakazu Yokokura

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Douglas N. Dimlich

Contributed equally to this work with: Howard Chia-Hao Chang, Douglas N. Dimlich, Takakazu Yokokura

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Takakazu Yokokura

Contributed equally to this work with: Howard Chia-Hao Chang, Douglas N. Dimlich, Takakazu Yokokura

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ashim Mukherjee

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

Mark W. Kankel

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Anindya Sen

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Vasanthi Sridhar

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Tudor A. Fulga

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Anne C. Hart

Affiliation Massachusetts General Hospital, Cancer Center and Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

David Van Vactor

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas

artavanis@hms.harvard.edu

Affiliations Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Collège de France, Paris, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HCHC DND TY MWK DVV SAT. Performed the experiments: HCHC DND TY VS. Analyzed the data: HCHC DND TY VS DVV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HCHC AM. Wrote the paper: HCHC DND MWK SAT. Read and revised the paper: ACH DVV. Provided unpublished results for discussion: ACH. Intellectual contribution: TAF AS.