About the Authors

M. Carmen Valero

Affiliation Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, and Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Heather D. Huntsman

Affiliation Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, and Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Jianming Liu

Current address: Department of Cell and Tissue Biology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, and Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Kai Zou

Affiliation Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, and Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Marni D. Boppart

mboppart@illinois.edu

Affiliation Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, and Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MCV JL HH MB. Performed the experiments: MCV HH JL KZ MB. Analyzed the data: MCV HH JL KZ MB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MB. Wrote the paper: MCV MB.