About the Authors

Lalitha Srinivasan

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Serdar A. Gurses

Current address: Department of Medical Biology, Emine-Bahaeddin Nakıboğlu School of Medicine, Zirve University, Gaziantep, Turkey

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Benjamin E. Hurley

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Jessica L. Miller

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Petros C. Karakousis

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Volker Briken

vbriken@umd.edu

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LS SAG VB. Performed the experiments: LS SAG BEH JLM. Analyzed the data: LS VB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PCK. Wrote the paper: LS VB.