About the Authors

Ida M. Smith

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Naoto Hoshi

nhoshi@uci.edu

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, 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: NH IMS. Performed the experiments: NH IMS. Analyzed the data: NH IMS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NH IMS. Wrote the paper: NH IMS.