About the Authors

Naohisa Yoshioka

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Current address: EMD Millipore, Hayward, California, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Cellular & Molecular Medicine, UCSD School of Medicine, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Steven F. Dowdy

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

sdowdy@ucsd.edu

Affiliation Department of Cellular & Molecular Medicine, UCSD School of Medicine, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

NY is an employee of EMD Millipore, a company that sells srRNAs. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.