About the Authors

Andrey A Ptitsyn

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: Andrey.Ptitsyn@colostate.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, College of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Sanjin Zvonic

Affiliation Stem Cell Laboratory, Clinical Nutrition Research Unit, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University System, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Jeffrey M Gimble

Affiliations Stem Cell Laboratory, Clinical Nutrition Research Unit, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University System, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America , Cell Biology Core Facility, Clinical Nutrition Research Unit, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University System, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

AAP conceived the study. SZ performed the experiments. AAP analyzed the data. AAP and JMG wrote the paper.