About the Authors

Ling Wang

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Shamit K. Dutta

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Tatsuyoshi Kojima

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Xiaolei Xu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Roya Khosravi-Far

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Stephen C. Ekker

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Debabrata Mukhopadhyay

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: Mukhopadhyay.debabrata@mayo.edu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DM LW. Performed the experiments: LW SD TK. Analyzed the data: SE DM LW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XX SE RK. Wrote the paper: DM LW.