About the Authors

Vidisha Tripathi

Affiliation Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Zhen Shen

Affiliation Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Arindam Chakraborty

Affiliation Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Sumanprava Giri

Affiliation Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Susan M. Freier

Affiliation ISIS Pharmaceuticals, Carlsbad, California, United States of America

Xiaolin Wu

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Technology, SAIC-Frederick, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Yongqing Zhang

Affiliation Research Resources Branch, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Myriam Gorospe

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Immunology, National Institute of Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Supriya G. Prasanth

Affiliation Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Ashish Lal

Affiliation Genetics Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Kannanganattu V. Prasanth

kumarp@life.illinois.edu

Affiliation Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

SMF is an employee of Isis Pharmaceutical, receives salary from the company, and holds stock options. The other authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VT KVP. Performed the experiments: VT ZS SG AC XW YZ. Analyzed the data: VT KVP XW YZ MG AL SGP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SMF. Wrote the paper: KVP VT.