About the Authors

Shannon M. Smith

Affiliation Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Li Cai

lcai@rutgers.edu

Affiliations Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LC. Performed the experiments: SMS. Analyzed the data: SMS LC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SMS LC. Wrote the paper: SMS LC.