About the Authors

Madhura Lohia

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Ctr for Cell Signaling, University of Virginia School of Medicine Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Yi Qin

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Ctr for Cell Signaling, University of Virginia School of Medicine Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Ian G. Macara

iang.g.macara@vanderbilt.edu

Affiliation Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IGM. Performed the experiments: ML YQ. Analyzed the data: IGM ML YQ. Wrote the paper: IGM.