About the Authors

Kazufumi Ohshiro

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Arnold M. Schwartz

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Paul H. Levine

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Rakesh Kumar

bcmrxk@gwumc.edu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KO RK. Performed the experiments: KO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AMS PHL. Wrote the paper: KO.