About the Authors

Meridith Lorbeck

Affiliation Department of Biology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Keerthy Pirooznia

Contributed equally to this work with: Keerthy Pirooznia, Jessica Sarthi

Affiliation Department of Biology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jessica Sarthi

Contributed equally to this work with: Keerthy Pirooznia, Jessica Sarthi

Affiliation Department of Biology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Xianmin Zhu

Current address: National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Felice Elefant

fe22@drexel.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ML KP JS XZ FE. Performed the experiments: ML KP JS XZ. Analyzed the data: ML KP JS XZ FE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ML XZ. Wrote the paper: ML KP JS FE.