About the Authors

Rugmani Padmanabhan Iyer

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Sumin Gu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Bruce J. Nicholson

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Jean X. Jiang

jiangj@uthscsa.edu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RPI SG JXJ. Performed the experiments: RPI. Analyzed the data: RPI SG JXJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SG BJN JXJ. Wrote the paper: RPI JXJ.