About the Authors

Kristin Boggs

Contributed equally to this work with: Kristin Boggs, Nandakumar Venkatesan

Affiliation Regenerative Bioscience Center, Department of Animal and Dairy Science, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States of America

Nandakumar Venkatesan

Contributed equally to this work with: Kristin Boggs, Nandakumar Venkatesan

Affiliation Regenerative Bioscience Center, Department of Animal and Dairy Science, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States of America

Ingmar Mederacke

Affiliation Department of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States of America

Yoshihiro Komatsu

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, United States of America

Steve Stice

Affiliation Regenerative Bioscience Center, Department of Animal and Dairy Science, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States of America

Robert F. Schwabe

Affiliation Department of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States of America

Charlotte M. Mistretta

Affiliation Department of Biologic and Materials Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States of America

Yuji Mishina

Affiliation Department of Biologic and Materials Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States of America

Hong-Xiang Liu

lhx@uga.edu

Affiliation Regenerative Bioscience Center, Department of Animal and Dairy Science, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KB NV IM YK SS RFS CMM YM HXL. Performed the experiments: KB NV IM SS YM HXL. Analyzed the data: KB NV IM SS YM HXL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YK SS RFS YM HXL. Wrote the paper: KB NV IM YK SS RFS CMM YM HXL.