About the Authors

Hongjie Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Hongjie Wang, Ruizhi Wang

Affiliation Section of Neurobiology, Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies, Port Saint Lucie, Florida, United States of America

Ruizhi Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Hongjie Wang, Ruizhi Wang

Affiliation Section of Neurobiology, Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies, Port Saint Lucie, Florida, United States of America

Shaohua Xu

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida, United States of America

Madepalli K. Lakshmana

mlakshmana@tpims.org

Affiliation Section of Neurobiology, Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies, Port Saint Lucie, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

Please note that the co-author Madepalli K Lakshmana is a PLOS ONE Editorial Board member. However, this does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MKL. Performed the experiments: HW RW. Analyzed the data: SX. Wrote the paper: MKL.