About the Authors

John Archer

Contributed equally to this work with: John Archer, John W. Pinney

Affiliation Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

John W. Pinney

Contributed equally to this work with: John Archer, John W. Pinney

Affiliation Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Jun Fan

Affiliation Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Etienne Simon-Loriere

Affiliation Architecture et Réactivité des ARN, Université Louis Pasteur de Strasbourg, CNRS, IBMC, Strasbourg, France

Eric J. Arts

Affiliation Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Matteo Negroni

Affiliations Architecture et Réactivité des ARN, Université Louis Pasteur de Strasbourg, CNRS, IBMC, Strasbourg, France, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

David L. Robertson

david.robertson@manchester.ac.uk

Affiliation Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JA JWP MN DLR. Performed the experiments: JA. Analyzed the data: JA JWP DLR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JF ESL EJA MN. Wrote the paper: JA JWP DLR.