About the Authors

Sara Rodriguez-Jato

Contributed equally to this work with: Sara Rodriguez-Jato, Jixiu Shan

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Florida College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Jixiu Shan

Contributed equally to this work with: Sara Rodriguez-Jato, Jixiu Shan

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Florida College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Jyoti Khadake

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Florida College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Arnold D. Heggestad

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Florida College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Xiaojie Ma

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Florida College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Karen A. Johnstone

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Florida College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

James L. Resnick

Affiliations Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Florida College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Center for Epigenetics, University of Florida College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Thomas P. Yang

tpyang@ufl.edu

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Florida College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Center for Epigenetics, University of Florida College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SRJ JS JK ADH JLR TPY. Performed the experiments: SRJ JS JK ADH XM. Analyzed the data: SRJ JX JK ADH XM TPY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KAJ JLR. Wrote the paper: SRJ JK TPY.