About the Authors

Nadeem Asad

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biosciences, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America

Wen Yih Aw

Current address: Molecular Biology Graduate Program, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biosciences, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America, Undergraduate Honors Program, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America

Lisa Timmons

timmons@ku.edu

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biosciences, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LT NA. Performed the experiments: NA WYA LT. Analyzed the data: NA WYA LT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NA WYA LT. Wrote the paper: NA LT.