About the Authors

Rui Yin

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations University of Maryland Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Johnathan D. Guest

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations University of Maryland Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Ghazaleh Taherzadeh

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Affiliations University of Maryland Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Ragul Gowthaman

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations University of Maryland Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Ipsa Mittra

Roles Data curation

Affiliations University of Maryland Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Jane Quackenbush

Roles Data curation

Affiliations University of Maryland Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Brian G. Pierce

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

pierce@umd.edu

Affiliations University of Maryland Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.