About the Authors

Girish Kewalramani

Affiliation Cell Biology Program, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada

Lisbeth Nielsen Fink

Affiliations Cell Biology Program, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada, Hagedorn Research Institute, Novo Nordisk A/S, Gentofte, Denmark

Farzad Asadi

Affiliations Cell Biology Program, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada, Department of Biochemistry, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Amira Klip

amira@sickkids.ca

Affiliation Cell Biology Program, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada

Competing Interests

Hagedorn Research Institute, Nordisk A/S, Gentofte, Denmark supported this study through a postdoctoral international fellowship to and the employment of Lisbeth Nielsen Fink. This International Postdoctoral Fellowships is for scientists who want to conduct basic research at global academic centers. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AK GK. Performed the experiments: GK LNF. Analyzed the data: GK LNF AK FA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AK LNF. Wrote the paper: GK LNF AK.