About the Authors

Nidhi Khanna

Affiliation Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Yejing Ge

Affiliation Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Jie Chen

jiechen@illinois.edu

Affiliation Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NK YG JC. Performed the experiments: NK YG. Analyzed the data: NK YG JC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NK YG JC. Wrote the paper: NK JC.