About the Authors

Andrew T. Lucas

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrew T. Lucas, Xiangping Fu

Affiliations Integrated Cellular Responses Laboratory, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Protein Signaling Domains Laboratory, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Xiangping Fu

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrew T. Lucas, Xiangping Fu

Affiliation Integrated Cellular Responses Laboratory, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

JingJing Liu

Affiliation Integrated Cellular Responses Laboratory, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Mary K. Brannon

Affiliation Protein Signaling Domains Laboratory, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Jianhua Yang

Current address: DuPont Pioneer, 7300 NW 62nd Ave., P.O. Box 1004, Johnston, Iowa, United States of America

Affiliation Integrated Cellular Responses Laboratory, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Daniel G. S. Capelluto

Affiliation Protein Signaling Domains Laboratory, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Carla V. Finkielstein

finkielc@vt.edu

Affiliation Integrated Cellular Responses Laboratory, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. The author Jianhua Yang is an employee of DuPont Pioneer, Iowa, United States of America. This does not alter the authors′ adherence to all PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DGSC CVF. Performed the experiments: ATL XF JL MKB JY DGSC CVF. Analyzed the data: DGSC CVF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JY. Wrote the paper: CVF.