About the Authors

Zhihua Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhihua Li, Yungki Park

Affiliation Center for Systems and Synthetic Biology, Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Yungki Park

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhihua Li, Yungki Park

shinysyk@gmail.com (YP); marcotte@icmb.utexas.edu (EMM)

Affiliation Center for Systems and Synthetic Biology, Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Edward M. Marcotte

shinysyk@gmail.com (YP); marcotte@icmb.utexas.edu (EMM)

Affiliation Center for Systems and Synthetic Biology, Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, 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: ZL YP EMM. Performed the experiments: ZL YP. Analyzed the data: ZL YP EMM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZL YP EMM. Wrote the paper: ZL YP EMM.