About the Authors

Velasco Cimica

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Hui-Chen Chen

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Janaki K. Iyer

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Nancy C. Reich

nreich@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VC HCC JKI NCR. Performed the experiments: VC HCC JKI . Analyzed the data: VC HCC JKI NCR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NCR. Wrote the paper: VC NCR.