About the Authors

Andrey Samsonov

Affiliation Cell-Based Assays/Reporter Cell Lines, Sigma-Aldrich, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Nathan Zenser

Affiliation Cell-Based Assays/Reporter Cell Lines, Sigma-Aldrich, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Fan Zhang

Affiliation Cell-Based Assays/Reporter Cell Lines, Sigma-Aldrich, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Hongyi Zhang

Affiliation Cell-Based Assays/Reporter Cell Lines, Sigma-Aldrich, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

John Fetter

Affiliation Cell-Based Assays/Reporter Cell Lines, Sigma-Aldrich, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Dmitry Malkov

dmitry.malkov@sial.com

Affiliation Cell-Based Assays/Reporter Cell Lines, Sigma-Aldrich, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

SIGMA-ALDRICH has competing financial interests. All the authors are employees of the commercial funder of this research (Sigma-Aldrich). This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AS NZ JF DM. Performed the experiments: AS NZ FZ HZ DM. Analyzed the data: AS NZ FZ DM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AS NZ FZ DM. Wrote the manuscript: AS JF DM.