About the Authors

Poonamjot Deol

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Jane R. Evans

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Joseph Dhahbi

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Karthikeyani Chellappa

Current address: Institute for Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, Translational Research Center, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Diana S. Han

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Stephen Spindler

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Frances M. Sladek

frances.sladek@ucr.edu

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PD FMS. Performed the experiments: PD JRE. Analyzed the data: PD JD FMS. Wrote the paper: PD FMS. Acquisition of data: KC DSH. Funding for JD: SS.