About the Authors

Minglin Lang

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America, College of Life Science, Agricultural University of Hebei, Baoding, China

Michael R. Kanost

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

Maureen J. Gorman

mgorman@ksu.edu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ML MG MK. Performed the experiments: ML MG. Analyzed the data: ML MG MK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MG MK. Wrote the paper: ML MG.