About the Authors

Erica White-Grindley

Affiliation Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

Liying Li

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Repon Mohammad Khan

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Fengzhen Ren

Affiliation Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

Anita Saraf

Affiliation Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

Laurence Florens

Affiliation Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

Kausik Si

ksi@stowers.org

Affiliations Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, 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 EW. Performed the experiments: EW LL RK FR AS KS. Analyzed the data: EW LL AS LF KS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EW LL RK AS LF KS. Wrote the paper: KS.