About the Authors

Ke Shi

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Wai Mun Huang

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Hideki Aihara

aihar001@umn.edu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

The author(s) have made the following declarations about their contributions: Conceived and designed the experiments: KS WMH HA. Performed the experiments: KS WMH HA. Analyzed the data: KS WMH HA. Wrote the paper: KS WMH HA.