About the Authors

Zhiyong Liu

Affiliations Department of Developmental Neurobiology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, Integrated Program in Biomedical Sciences, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Thomas Owen

Affiliations Department of Developmental Neurobiology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom

Jie Fang

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

Jian Zuo

jian.zuo@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: ZL JZ. Performed the experiments: ZL TO JF. Analyzed the data: ZL TO JF. Wrote the paper: ZL JZ.