About the Authors

Kyle J. Hewitt

Affiliation Program in Cell, Molecular and Developmental Biology, Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Yulia Shamis

Affiliation Program in Cell, Molecular and Developmental Biology, Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ryan B. Hayman

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, United States of America

Mariam Margvelashvili

Affiliations Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Dental Materials, School of Dentistry, University of Siena, Siena, Italy

Shumin Dong

Affiliation Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Mark W. Carlson

Affiliation Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jonathan A. Garlick

jonathan.garlick@tufts.edu

Affiliations Program in Cell, Molecular and Developmental Biology, Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KJH MWC JAG. Performed the experiments: KJH YS RBH SD MM. Analyzed the data: KJH YS JAG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KJH RBH JAG. Wrote the paper: KJH JAG.