About the Authors

Chu-Fang Chou

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Wei-Jye Lin

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Chen-Chung Lin

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Christian A. Luber

Affiliation Department of Proteomics and Signal Transduction, Max-Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany

Roseline Godbout

Affiliation Department of Oncology, University of Alberta, Cross Cancer Institute, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Matthias Mann

Affiliation Department of Proteomics and Signal Transduction, Max-Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany

Ching-Yi Chen

cchen@uab.edu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: C-FC C-YC. Performed the experiments: C-FC W-JL C-CL CAL. Analyzed the data: C-FC CAL C-YC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RG MM. Wrote the manuscript: C-FC C-YC.