About the Authors

Brandon N. Nicolay

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Battuya Bayarmagnai

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Nam Sung Moon

Affiliation Department of Biology, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Elizaveta V. Benevolenskaya

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Maxim V. Frolov

mfrolov@uic.edu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BNN EVB MVF. Performed the experiments: BNN BB. Analyzed the data: BNN EVB MVF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NSM. Wrote the paper: BNN MVF.