About the Authors

Zeyu Peng

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

Peter G. Green

Affiliation Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Yasuyuki Arakane

Current address: Department of Applied Biology, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Korea

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

Michael R. Kanost

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

Maureen J. Gorman

mgorman@ksu.edu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZP PG YA MK MG. Performed the experiments: ZP PG YA. Analyzed the data: ZP PG YA MK MG. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: ZP PG MK MG.