About the Authors

Thomas F. Gallegos

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Gleb Martovetsky

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Valentina Kouznetsova

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Kevin T. Bush

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Sanjay K. Nigam

snigam@ucsd.edu

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TFG KTB SKN. Performed the experiments: TFG GM. Analyzed the data: TFG GM VK. Wrote the paper: TFG GM KTB SKN.