About the Authors

Victoria L. Herrera

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Lorenz R. Ponce

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Nelson Ruiz-Opazo

nruizo@bu.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NRO. Performed the experiments: VLH LRP. Analyzed the data: VLH NRO. Wrote the paper: VLH NRO.