About the Authors

Madhura Kulkarni

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Harold E. Smith

smithh@umbi.umd.edu

Affiliation Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MK HES. Performed the experiments: MK HES. Analyzed the data: MK HES. Wrote the paper: MK HES.