About the Authors

Stacie E. Hughes

Contributed equally to this work with: Stacie E. Hughes, J. Scott Beeler

sfh@stowers.org

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

J. Scott Beeler

Contributed equally to this work with: Stacie E. Hughes, J. Scott Beeler

Affiliations Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Angela Seat

Affiliations Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America, The University of Kansas, Overland Park, Kansas, United States of America

Brian D. Slaughter

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

Jay R. Unruh

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

Elisabeth Bauerly

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

Heinrich J. G. Matthies

Affiliation Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

R. Scott Hawley

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

Conceived and designed the experiments: SEH RSH HJGM BDS JRU. Performed the experiments: SEH JSB AS EB BDS JRU. Analyzed the data: SEH BDS JRU. Wrote the paper: SEH RSH BDS JRU. Designed figures and tables: AS.