About the Authors

Jhuma Das

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Andrei A. Aleksandrov

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Cystic Fibrosis Treatment and Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Liying Cui

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Cystic Fibrosis Treatment and Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Lihua He

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Cystic Fibrosis Treatment and Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

John R. Riordan

john_riordan@med.unc.edu (JRR); dokh@unc.edu (NVD)

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Cystic Fibrosis Treatment and Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Nikolay V. Dokholyan

john_riordan@med.unc.edu (JRR); dokh@unc.edu (NVD)

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Cystic Fibrosis Treatment and Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JD JRR NVD. Formal analysis: JD AAA JRR. Investigation: JD LC LH AAA JRR NVD. Methodology: JD LC LH AAA JRR NVD. Software: JD. Supervision: JRR NVD. Writing – original draft: JD JRR NVD. Writing – review & editing: JD AAA LC LH JRR NVD.