About the Authors

Rajarshi Ghosh

Affiliation Program in Gene Function and Expression, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Kathryn L. Lipson

Affiliations Program in Gene Function and Expression, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Physical and Biological Sciences, Western New England College, Springfield, Massachusetts, United States of America

Karen E. Sargent

Affiliation Program in Gene Function and Expression, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Arthur M. Mercurio

Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Joan S. Hunt

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

David Ron

Affiliations Skirball Institute, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Institute of Metabolic Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Fumihiko Urano

Fumihiko.Urano@umassmed.edu

Affiliations Program in Gene Function and Expression, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America, Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RG KLL DR FU. Performed the experiments: RG KLL KES FU. Analyzed the data: RG KLL KES DR FU. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AMM JH DR FU. Wrote the paper: RG KLL FU.