About the Authors

Elizaveta Katorcha

Affiliations Center for Biomedical Engineering and Technology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Nina Klimova

Affiliations Center for Biomedical Engineering and Technology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Natallia Makarava

Affiliations Center for Biomedical Engineering and Technology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Regina Savtchenko

Affiliations Center for Biomedical Engineering and Technology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Xuefang Pan

Affiliation Division of Medical Genetics, Sainte-Justine University Hospital Research Center, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada

Ida Annunziata

Affiliation Department of Genetics, St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Kohta Takahashi

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Biomembrane and Glycobiology, Tohoku Pharmaceutical University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

Taeko Miyagi

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Biomembrane and Glycobiology, Tohoku Pharmaceutical University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

Alexey V. Pshezhetsky

Affiliation Division of Medical Genetics, Sainte-Justine University Hospital Research Center, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada

Alessandra d’Azzo

Affiliation Department of Genetics, St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Ilia V. Baskakov

Baskakov@umaryland.edu

Affiliations Center for Biomedical Engineering and Technology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EK NM IVB. Performed the experiments: EK NK NM RS. Analyzed the data: EK NK IVB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XP IA KT TM AVP Ad’A. Wrote the paper: IVB TM AVP Ad’A.