About the Authors

Shenping Wu

Current address: Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Biophysics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America

Jun Liu

Current address: Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The University of Texas - Houston Medical School, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Biophysics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America

Mary C. Reedy

† Deceased.

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Richard T. Tregear

Affiliation Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, England

Hanspeter Winkler

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Biophysics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America

Clara Franzini-Armstrong

Affiliation Pennsylvania Muscle Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Hiroyuki Sasaki

Affiliation Division of Fine Morphology, Core Research Facilities, Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Carmen Lucaveche

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Yale E. Goldman

Affiliation Pennsylvania Muscle Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Michael K. Reedy

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Kenneth A. Taylor

taylor@bio.fsu.edu

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Biophysics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MCR RTT YG MR KAT. Performed the experiments: JL MCR RTT HS CL MR. Analyzed the data: SW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SW HW CFA YG MR. Wrote the paper: SW MCR YG MR KAT. This author is deceased. This author is deceased.