About the Authors

Nikolaos E. Ioannidis

Contributed equally to this work with: Nikolaos E. Ioannidis, Jeffrey A. Cruz

ioannidis@biology.uoc.gr

Affiliations Department of Biology, University of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, Institute of Biological Chemistry, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

Jeffrey A. Cruz

Contributed equally to this work with: Nikolaos E. Ioannidis, Jeffrey A. Cruz

Affiliations Institute of Biological Chemistry, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and DOE-Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Kiriakos Kotzabasis

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

David M. Kramer

Affiliations Institute of Biological Chemistry, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and DOE-Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NI DK. Performed the experiments: NI JC. Analyzed the data: NI JC DK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KK DK. Wrote the paper: NI JC KK DK.