About the Authors

Abhik Bandyopadhyay

Affiliation Department of Cellular and Structural Biology, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Long Wang

Affiliation Department of Cellular and Structural Biology, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Joseph Agyin

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Yuping Tang

Affiliation Department of Cellular and Structural Biology, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Shu Lin

Affiliation Department of Cellular and Structural Biology, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

I-Tien Yeh

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Keya De

Affiliation Department of Cellular and Structural Biology, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Lu-Zhe Sun

sunl@uthscsa.edu

Affiliation Department of Cellular and Structural Biology, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AB LZS. Performed the experiments: AB LW YT SL KD. Analyzed the data: AB LW YT SL KD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JA. Wrote the paper: AB LZS. Histology analysis: ITY.