About the Authors

Hyojeung Kang

Affiliations The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, The Kyungpook National University, College of Pharmacy, Daegu, Korea

Andreas Wiedmer

Affiliation The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Yan Yuan

Affiliation The University of Pennsylvania, School of Dentistry, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Erle Robertson

Affiliation The University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Paul M. Lieberman

Lieberman@wistar.org

Affiliation The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HK PML . Performed the experiments: HK AW. Analyzed the data: HK YY ER PML. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YY ER. Wrote the paper: HK PML.