About the Authors

Lourdes Figueroa

Affiliation Section of Cellular Signaling, Department of Molecular Biophysics and Physiology, Rush University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Vyacheslav M. Shkryl

Affiliation Department of General Physiology of the Nervous System, Laboratory of Biophysics of Ion Channels, A.A. Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology, Kiev, Ukraine

Lothar A. Blatter

Affiliation Section of Cellular Signaling, Department of Molecular Biophysics and Physiology, Rush University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Eduardo Ríos

erios@rush.edu

Affiliation Section of Cellular Signaling, Department of Molecular Biophysics and Physiology, Rush University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ER LB VS LF. Performed the experiments: LF VS ER. Analyzed the data: ER LB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ER LB. Wrote the paper: ER.