About the Authors

Amit K. Mittal

Contributed equally to this work with: Amit K. Mittal, Nagendra K. Chaturvedi

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Nagendra K. Chaturvedi

Contributed equally to this work with: Amit K. Mittal, Nagendra K. Chaturvedi

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Rae A. Rohlfsen

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Payal Gupta

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Avadhut D. Joshi

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Ganapati V. Hegde

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

R. Gregory Bociek

Affiliation Internal Medicine, Section of Oncology/Hematology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Shantaram S. Joshi

ssjoshi@unmc.edu

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AKM NKC SSJ. Performed the experiments: AKM NKC RAR PG ADJ GVH. Analyzed the data: AKM NKC SSJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RGB. Wrote the paper: AKM NKC SSJ.