About the Authors

Xianfang Wu

Affiliation Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America

Jason M. Robotham

Affiliation Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America

Emily Lee

Affiliation Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America

Stephen Dalton

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Norman M. Kneteman

Affiliation Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

David M. Gilbert

Affiliation Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America

Hengli Tang

tang@bio.fsu.edu

Affiliation Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XW HT. Performed the experiments: XW JMR EL. Analyzed the data: XW JMR EL HT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DMG SD NMK. Wrote the paper: HT.