About the Authors

Stephen B. Treaster

Affiliations Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Department of Molecular Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Asish R. Chaudhuri

Current address: Department of Biochemistry, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA

Affiliation Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Steven N. Austad

austad@uab.edu

Current address: Department of Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA

Affiliation Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SBT ARC SNA. Performed the experiments: SBT ARC. Analyzed the data: SBT ARC SNA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ARC SNA. Wrote the paper: SBT ARC SNA.