About the Authors

Janet Ugolino

Contributed equally to this work with: Janet Ugolino, Yon Ju Ji

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Department of Neuroscience, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Yon Ju Ji

Contributed equally to this work with: Janet Ugolino, Yon Ju Ji

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Department of Neuroscience, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Karen Conchina

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Department of Neuroscience, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Justin Chu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Department of Neuroscience, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Raja Sekhar Nirujogi

Affiliation McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Akhilesh Pandey

Affiliation McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Nathan R. Brady

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Maryland, United States of America

Anne Hamacher-Brady

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Maryland, United States of America

Jiou Wang

jiouw@jhu.edu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Department of Neuroscience, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JU JW. Funding acquisition: JW. Investigation: JU YJJ NRB AHB RSN AP. Methodology: JU YJJ NRB AHB. Project administration: JW. Resources: KC JC. Supervision: JW. Validation: JU YJJ NRB AHB. Visualization: JU YJJ NRB. Writing – original draft: JU JW. Writing – review & editing: YJJ AHB JW.