About the Authors

Brian Krumm

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America

Xiangzhi Meng

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Zhixin Wang

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America

Yan Xiang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yan Xiang, Junpeng Deng

xiangy@uthscsa.edu (YX); Junpeng.deng@okstate.edu (JD)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Junpeng Deng

Contributed equally to this work with: Yan Xiang, Junpeng Deng

xiangy@uthscsa.edu (YX); Junpeng.deng@okstate.edu (JD)

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YX JD. Performed the experiments: BK XM ZW YX JD. Analyzed the data: BK YX JD. Wrote the paper: BK YX JD.