About the Authors

Nilesh K. Sharma

Contributed equally to this work with: Nilesh K. Sharma, Ashutosh Kumar

Current address: Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Dr. D. Y. Patil Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Institute, Pune, MH, India

Affiliation Immunity, Inflammation and Disease Laboratory, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, Research Triangle, Park, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Ashutosh Kumar

Contributed equally to this work with: Nilesh K. Sharma, Ashutosh Kumar

Affiliation Immunity, Inflammation and Disease Laboratory, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, Research Triangle, Park, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Amrita Kumari

Affiliation Immunity, Inflammation and Disease Laboratory, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, Research Triangle, Park, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Erik J. Tokar

Affiliation National Toxicology Program, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, Research Triangle, Park, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Michael P. Waalkes

Affiliation National Toxicology Program, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, Research Triangle, Park, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Carl D. Bortner

Affiliation Laboratory of Signal Transduction, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, Research Triangle, Park, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Jason Williams

Affiliation Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, Research Triangle, Park, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Marilyn Ehrenshaft

Affiliation Immunity, Inflammation and Disease Laboratory, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, Research Triangle, Park, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Ronald P. Mason

Affiliation Immunity, Inflammation and Disease Laboratory, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, Research Triangle, Park, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Birandra K. Sinha

sinha1@niehs.nih.gov

Affiliation Immunity, Inflammation and Disease Laboratory, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, Research Triangle, Park, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BKS RPM. Performed the experiments: BKS NKS CDB JW EJT A. Kumar A. Kumari ME. Analyzed the data: BKS NKS A. Kumar CDB JW MPW EJT ME. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BKS RPM. Wrote the paper: BKS MPW RPM.