About the Authors

Divya B. Nair

Affiliation Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Daniel K. C. Chung

Affiliation Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

James Schneider

Affiliation Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Kaoru Uchida

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Prefectural University of Hiroshima, 562 Nanatsuka, Shobara, Hiroshima, Japan

Shin-Ichi Aizawa

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Prefectural University of Hiroshima, 562 Nanatsuka, Shobara, Hiroshima, Japan

Ken F. Jarrell

jarrellk@queensu.ca

Affiliation Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that there no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KFJ DBN. Performed the experiments: DBN DKCC JS KU SA KFJ. Analyzed the data: DBN SA KFJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KFJ SA. Wrote the paper: DBN KFJ.