About the Authors

Daniel C. Ma

Current address: University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, California State University Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Alexander J. Yoon

Affiliation Pasarow Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Kym F. Faull

Affiliation Pasarow Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Robert Desharnais

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, California State University Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Edith T. Zemanick

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Edith Porter

eporter@calstatela.edu

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, California State University Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DCM KFF EZ EP. Performed the experiments: DCM AY. Analyzed the data: DCM AY KFF RD EP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KFF RD EZ EP. Wrote the paper: DCM KFF RD EZ EP.