About the Authors

Tomonaga Ichikawa

Contributed equally to this work with: Tomonaga Ichikawa, Jinqing Li

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

Jinqing Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Tomonaga Ichikawa, Jinqing Li

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

Colin J. Meyer

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Reata Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Irving, Texas, United States of America

Joseph S. Janicki

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

Mark Hannink

hanninkm@missouri.edu (MH); Taixing.Cui@uscmed.sc.edu (TC)

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri - Columbia, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Taixing Cui

hanninkm@missouri.edu (MH); Taixing.Cui@uscmed.sc.edu (TC)

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TC. Performed the experiments: TI JL. Analyzed the data: TI JL JSJ TC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CJM MH TC. Wrote the paper: JSJ MH TC.