About the Authors

Jose Thekkiniath

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 06520, United States of America

Masoud Zabet-Moghaddam

Affiliation Center for Biotechnology and Genomics, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, 79402–3132, United States of America

Kameswara Rao Kottapalli

Affiliation Center for Biotechnology and Genomics, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, 79402–3132, United States of America

Mithun R. Pasham

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, United States of America, and Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, 02115, United States of America

Susan San Francisco

Affiliations Center for Biotechnology and Genomics, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, 79402–3132, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, 79409–3131, United States of America

Michael San Francisco

Michael.sanfrancisco@ttu.edu

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, 79409–3131, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MSF SSF JT MZ KRK MP. Performed the experiments: JT SSF MZ MP. Analyzed the data: JT MZ KRK SSF MSF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MSF SSF. Wrote the paper: JT MZ SSF KRK MSF.