About the Authors

Lauren Endres

Affiliations Colleges of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, SUNY Polytechnic Institute, Albany, New York 12203, United States of America, RNA Institute and Cancer Research Center, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, New York 12222, United States of America

Ulrike Begley

Contributed equally to this work with: Ulrike Begley, Ryan Clark, Chen Gu

Affiliation Colleges of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, SUNY Polytechnic Institute, Albany, New York 12203, United States of America

Ryan Clark

Contributed equally to this work with: Ulrike Begley, Ryan Clark, Chen Gu

Affiliation Colleges of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, SUNY Polytechnic Institute, Albany, New York 12203, United States of America

Chen Gu

Contributed equally to this work with: Ulrike Begley, Ryan Clark, Chen Gu

Affiliation Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States of America

Agnieszka Dziergowska

Affiliation Institute of Organic Chemistry, Lodz University of Technology, Lodz, Poland

Andrzej Małkiewicz

Affiliation Institute of Organic Chemistry, Lodz University of Technology, Lodz, Poland

J. Andres Melendez

Affiliation Colleges of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, SUNY Polytechnic Institute, Albany, New York 12203, United States of America

Peter C. Dedon

Affiliations Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States of America, Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, CREATE, Singapore, Singapore, Center for Environmental Health Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States of America

Thomas J. Begley

tbegley@albany.edu

Affiliations Colleges of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, SUNY Polytechnic Institute, Albany, New York 12203, United States of America, RNA Institute and Cancer Research Center, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, New York 12222, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LE UB RC CG AD AM JM PD TB. Performed the experiments: LE UB RC CG. Analyzed the data: LE UB RC CG JM PD TB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AD AM. Wrote the paper: LE UB RC CG AD AM JM PD TB.