About the Authors

Jun Zhang

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Kaeling Tan

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Xufeng Wu

Affiliation Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Guifang Chen

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Jinjin Sun

Current address: Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Affiliations Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, River Hill High School, Clarksville, Maryland, United States of America

Samara L. Reck-Peterson

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

John A. Hammer III

hammerj@nhlbi.nih.gov (JH); xxiang@usuhs.mil (XX)

Affiliation Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Xin Xiang

hammerj@nhlbi.nih.gov (JH); xxiang@usuhs.mil (XX)

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JZ KT XW SR-P JH XX. Performed the experiments: JZ KT XW GC JS JH XX. Analyzed the data: JZ KT XW GC JS JH XX. Wrote the paper: XX SR-P JH.