About the Authors

Radhika Mathur

Current address: Beckman Coulter Inc., Brea, California, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biological Chemistry, College of Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

James L. Yen

Current address: Clarient Inc., Garden Grove, California, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biological Chemistry, College of Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Peter Kaiser

pkaiser@uci.edu

Affiliation Department of Biological Chemistry, College of Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RM PK JLY. Performed the experiments: RM PK JLY. Analyzed the data: RM PK JLY. Wrote the paper: RM PK.