About the Authors

Shankar Sadasivan

Affiliation Department of Developmental Neurobiology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Brooks B. Pond

Affiliations Department of Developmental Neurobiology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America

Amar K. Pani

Affiliation Department of Developmental Neurobiology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Chunxu Qu

Affiliation Department of Information Sciences, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Yun Jiao

Affiliation Department of Developmental Neurobiology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Richard J. Smeyne

Richard.smeyne@stjude.org

Affiliation Department of Developmental Neurobiology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SS BBP RJS. Performed the experiments: SS BBP RJS AKP YJ. Analyzed the data: SS BBP CQ RJS. Wrote the paper: SS BBP RJS.