About the Authors

Jaspreet S. Khurana

Affiliation Program in Cell and Developmental Dynamics and Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jia Xu

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Zhiping Weng

Affiliation Program in Bioinformatics and Integrative Biology and Department in Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

William E. Theurkauf

william.theurkauf@umassmed.edu

Affiliation Program in Cell and Developmental Dynamics and Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JSK ZW WET. Performed the experiments: JSK. Analyzed the data: JSK JX ZW WET. Wrote the paper: JSK ZW WET.