About the Authors

Dongmei Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Dongmei Wu, Yuhong Pang

Affiliation Programs in Signal Transduction, and Stem Cells and Regeneration, Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Yuhong Pang

Contributed equally to this work with: Dongmei Wu, Yuhong Pang

Affiliation Programs in Signal Transduction, and Stem Cells and Regeneration, Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Yuehai Ke

Affiliation Programs in Signal Transduction, and Stem Cells and Regeneration, Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Jianxiu Yu

Affiliation Programs in Signal Transduction, and Stem Cells and Regeneration, Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Zhao He

Affiliation Programs in Signal Transduction, and Stem Cells and Regeneration, Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Lutz Tautz

Affiliation Programs in Signal Transduction, and Stem Cells and Regeneration, Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Tomas Mustelin

Affiliation Programs in Signal Transduction, and Stem Cells and Regeneration, Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Sheng Ding

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of American

Ziwei Huang

Affiliation Programs in Signal Transduction, and Stem Cells and Regeneration, Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Gen-Sheng Feng

gfeng@burnham.org

Affiliation Programs in Signal Transduction, and Stem Cells and Regeneration, Burnham Institute for Medical Research, 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: DW YP GSF. Performed the experiments: DW YP YK JY. Analyzed the data: DW YP ZH LT ZH GSF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DW YP YK TM SD. Wrote the paper: DW YP GSF.