About the Authors

Simon Swingler

Affiliation Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Angela M Mann

Affiliation Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jin Zhou

Affiliation Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Catherine Swingler

Affiliation Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Mario Stevenson

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: Mario.stevenson@umassmed.edu

Affiliation Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

SS and MS conceived and designed the experiments. SS, AMM, JZ, and CS performed the experiments. SS and MS analyzed the data and wrote the paper.