About the Authors

Rivka C. Stone

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, New Jersey Medical School, UMDNJ, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America, New Jersey Medical School-University Hospital Cancer Center, UMDNJ, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Peicheng Du

Affiliation High Performance and Research Computing, Department of Information Systems and Technology, UMDNJ, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Di Feng

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, New Jersey Medical School, UMDNJ, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America, New Jersey Medical School-University Hospital Cancer Center, UMDNJ, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Kopal Dhawan

Affiliation Molecular Resource Facility, New Jersey Medical School, UMDNJ, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Lars Rönnblom

Affiliation Department of Medical Sciences, Section of Rheumatology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Maija-Leena Eloranta

Affiliation Department of Medical Sciences, Section of Rheumatology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Robert Donnelly

Affiliation Molecular Resource Facility, New Jersey Medical School, UMDNJ, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Betsy J. Barnes

barnesbe@umdnj.edu

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, New Jersey Medical School, UMDNJ, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America, New Jersey Medical School-University Hospital Cancer Center, UMDNJ, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BJB RCS DF RD LR MLE. Performed the experiments: RCS DF KD MLE RD. Analyzed the data: RCS PD DF KD BJB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PD KD LR MLE RD BJB. Wrote the paper: BJB RCS PD DF LR MLE RD.