About the Authors

Andrea L. Waite

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrea L. Waite, Philip Schaner

Affiliation Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Philip Schaner

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrea L. Waite, Philip Schaner

Affiliation Division of Radiology/Oncology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Neil Richards

Affiliation Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Banu Balci-Peynircioglu

Affiliation Department of Medical Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

Seth L. Masters

Affiliation School of Biochemistry and Immunology, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Susannah D. Brydges

Affiliation Genetics and Genomics Branch, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Disease, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Michelle Fox

Affiliation Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Arthur Hong

Affiliation Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Engin Yilmaz

Affiliation Department of Medical Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

Daniel L. Kastner

Affiliation Genetics and Genomics Branch, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Disease, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Ellis L. Reinherz

Affiliation Harvard Medical School, Laboratory of Immunology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Deborah L. Gumucio

dgumucio@umich.edu

Affiliation Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ALW PS BBP SM SDB EY DLK ELR DG. Performed the experiments: ALW PS NR BBP SM MF AH. Analyzed the data: ALW PS NR BBP SM SDB DG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DG. Wrote the paper: ALW DG.