About the Authors

Anirban Chatterjee

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Boston University Goldman School of Dental Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Sudip K. Ghosh

Affiliations Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Boston University Goldman School of Dental Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, West Bengal, India

Ken Jang

Affiliation Department of Biophysics and Physiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Esther Bullitt

Affiliation Department of Biophysics and Physiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Landon Moore

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Genomics, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Phillips W. Robbins

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Boston University Goldman School of Dental Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

John Samuelson

jsamuels@bu.edu

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Boston University Goldman School of Dental Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AC SKG EB PR JS. Performed the experiments: AC SKG KJ. Analyzed the data: AC SKG EB PR JS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LM. Wrote the paper: EB JS.