About the Authors

Shuyi Chen

sch@stowers.org (SC); tgx@stowers.org (TX)

Affiliation Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

Brandy Lewis

Affiliation Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

Andrea Moran

Affiliation Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

Ting Xie

sch@stowers.org (SC); tgx@stowers.org (TX)

Affiliations Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TX SC. Performed the experiments: SC BL AM. Analyzed the data: TX SC. Wrote the paper: TX SC.