About the Authors

Wencheng Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Wencheng Li, Hsiang-Jui Yeh

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Hsiang-Jui Yeh

Contributed equally to this work with: Wencheng Li, Hsiang-Jui Yeh

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology & Biochemistry, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

Ganesh S. Shankarling

Current address: Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America.

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology & Biochemistry, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

Zhe Ji

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Bin Tian

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Clinton C. MacDonald

clint.macdonald@ttuhsc.edu

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology & Biochemistry, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CCM BT. Performed the experiments: H-JY GSS. Analyzed the data: WL ZJ. Wrote the paper: CCM.