About the Authors

Fred E. Indig

indigf@mail.nih.gov

Affiliation Laboratory of Clinical Investigation, Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Ivana Rybanska

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Gerontology, Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Parimal Karmakar

Affiliation Department of Life Science and Biotechnology, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India

Chakravarty Devulapalli

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Haiqing Fu

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Pharmacology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

France Carrier

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Vilhelm A. Bohr

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Gerontology, Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FI VB FC. Performed the experiments: FI PK IR. Analyzed the data: FI PK FC VB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FI PK CD FC IR HF. Wrote the paper: FI FC VB.