About the Authors

Vladislava Juric

Current address: The G.W. Hooper Research Foundation, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Chih-Chiun Chen

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Lester F. Lau

lflau@uic.edu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VJ C-CC LFL. Performed the experiments: VJ C-CC. Analyzed the data: VJ C-CC LFL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VJ C-CC LFL. Wrote the paper: VJ C-CC LFL.