About the Authors

Frank S. Choveau

Current address: LabEx ICST, Institut de Pharmacologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS and Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, Valbonne, France

Affiliation Department of Physiology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Jie Zhang

Affiliation Department of Physiology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Sonya M. Bierbower

Current address: William Paterson University, Wayne, New Jersey, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Physiology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Ramaswamy Sharma

Affiliation Department of Cellular and Structural Biology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Mark S. Shapiro

shapirom@uthscsa.edu

Affiliation Department of Physiology, 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: FSC SMB MSS. Performed the experiments: FSC SMB RS JZ. Analyzed the data: FSC SMB RS JZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RS MSS. Wrote the paper: FSC SMB MSS.