About the Authors

Yan Hu

Affiliation Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Brian L. Ellis

Affiliation Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Ying Y. Yiu

Affiliation Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Melanie M. Miller

Affiliation Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Joseph F. Urban

Affiliation United States Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Research Service, Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center, Diet, Genomics and Immunology Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America

Linda Z. Shi

Affiliation Institute of Engineering in Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Raffi V. Aroian

raroian@ucsd.edu

Affiliation Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YH BLE RVA. Performed the experiments: YH BLE YYY MMM. Analyzed the data: YH LZS RVA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LZS JFU. Wrote the manuscript: RVA.