About the Authors

Gerrit Volkmann

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Xiang-Qin Liu

paul.liu@dal.ca

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GV XQL. Performed the experiments: GV. Analyzed the data: GV XQL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XQL. Wrote the paper: GV XQL.