About the Authors

Shinsuke Seki

Affiliations Fundamental and Applied Cryobiology Group, Department of Biochemistry and Cellular and Molecular Biology, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Tokyo, Japan

Peter Mazur

pmazur@utk.edu

Affiliation Fundamental and Applied Cryobiology Group, Department of Biochemistry and Cellular and Molecular Biology, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SS PM. Performed the experiments: SS. Analyzed the data: SS PM. Wrote the paper: SS PM.