About the Authors

Jon C. Aster

jaster@rics.bwh.harvard.edu (JCA); wpear@mail.med.upenn.edu (WSP)

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Nick Bodnar

Affiliations Department of Cancer Biology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Lanwei Xu

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Lab Medicine, Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute, Institute for Medicine and Engineering, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Fredrick Karnell

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Lab Medicine, Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute, Institute for Medicine and Engineering, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

John M. Milholland

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Lab Medicine, Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute, Institute for Medicine and Engineering, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Ivan Maillard

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Lab Medicine, Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute, Institute for Medicine and Engineering, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Gavin Histen

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Yunsun Nam

Affiliation Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Stephen C. Blacklow

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Cancer Biology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Warren S. Pear

jaster@rics.bwh.harvard.edu (JCA); wpear@mail.med.upenn.edu (WSP)

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Lab Medicine, Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute, Institute for Medicine and Engineering, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JA WSP SCB . Performed the experiments: NB JM FK LX IM GH YN. Analyzed the data: JCA WSP SCB JM FK LX NB IM GH YN. Wrote the paper: JA SCB WSP. Performed structural modeling: YN NB SCB.