About the Authors

Deepak A. Lamba

Affiliations Department of Biological Structure, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Institute for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Andrew McUsic

Affiliations Department of Biological Structure, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Institute for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Roli K. Hirata

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Pei-Rong Wang

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

David Russell

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Institute for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Thomas A. Reh

tomreh@u.washington.edu

Affiliations Department of Biological Structure, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Institute for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

Thomas A. Reh is on the Editorial Board of PLoS ONE.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DAL DWR TAR. Performed the experiments: DAL AM RKH PRW. Analyzed the data: DAL AM RKH PRW DWR TAR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DAL RKH PRW DWR. Wrote the paper: DAL TAR.