About the Authors

Carol Lynn Curchoe

Contributed equally to this work with: Carol Lynn Curchoe, Jochen Maurer

Affiliation Sanford-Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Jochen Maurer

Contributed equally to this work with: Carol Lynn Curchoe, Jochen Maurer

Affiliation Sanford-Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Sonja J. McKeown

Affiliation California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America

Giulio Cattarossi

Affiliation Sanford-Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Flavio Cimadamore

Affiliation Sanford-Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Mats Nilbratt

Affiliation Sanford-Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Evan Y. Snyder

Affiliation Sanford-Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Marianne Bronner-Fraser

Affiliation California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America

Alexey V. Terskikh

terskikh@burnham.org

Affiliation Sanford-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: MBF AVT. Performed the experiments: CLC JM SM GC FC MN. Analyzed the data: SM ES MBF AVT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ES MBF AVT. Wrote the paper: CLC JM AVT.