About the Authors

Ronika Sitapara Leang

Affiliation Molecular Biology Institute, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Ting-Ting Wu

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Seungmin Hwang

Current address: Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America.

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Lidia T. Liang

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Leming Tong

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Jennifer T. Truong

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Ren Sun

rsun@mednet.ucla.edu

Affiliations Molecular Biology Institute, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RSL TTW RS. Performed the experiments: RSL TTW SH LTL LT JTT. Analyzed the data: RSL TTW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RSL TTW SH. Wrote the paper: RSL.