About the Authors

Haoyue Zhang

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States of America

Linlin Sun

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States of America

Kun Wang

Affiliations Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States of America, Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States of America

Di Wu

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States of America

Mason Trappio

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States of America

Celeste Witting

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States of America

Kan Cao

kcao@umd.edu

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: HZ KC. Formal analysis: HZ KW. Funding acquisition: KC. Investigation: HZ LS KW DW MT CW. Methodology: HZ KW KC. Project administration: KC. Supervision: KC. Validation: LS DW HZ. Writing – original draft: HZ KC. Writing – review & editing: KC HZ.