About the Authors

Adhiraj Roy

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Science, 2300 Eye Street, NW, Washington, D. C., 20037, United States of America

Angela D. Dement

Affiliation Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1015 Life Science Circle, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, United States of America

Kyu Hong Cho

Affiliation Department of Biology, Indiana State University, 200N 7th St, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809, United States of America

Jeong-Ho Kim

jh_kim@gwu.edu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Science, 2300 Eye Street, NW, Washington, D. C., 20037, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JHK. Performed the experiments: AR AD. Analyzed the data: AR AD KHC JHK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AR JHK. Wrote the paper: JHK AR.