About the Authors

Max T. Geisinger

Contributed equally to this work with: Max T. Geisinger, Randy Astaiza

Affiliation Basic Sciences Department, The Commonwealth Medical College, Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Randy Astaiza

Contributed equally to this work with: Max T. Geisinger, Randy Astaiza

Affiliation Basic Sciences Department, The Commonwealth Medical College, Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Tiffany Butler

Affiliation Basic Sciences Department, The Commonwealth Medical College, Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Steven N. Popoff

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Sonia Lobo Planey

Affiliation Basic Sciences Department, The Commonwealth Medical College, Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America

John A. Arnott

jarnott@tcmedc.org

Affiliation Basic Sciences Department, The Commonwealth Medical College, Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JA SLP. Performed the experiments: MG RA TB. Analyzed the data: JA SLP SNP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JA SLP SNP. Wrote the paper: JA MG SLP.