About the Authors

Yi Han

Affiliation Buck Institute for Aging Research, Novato, California, United States of America

Aaron Miller

Affiliation Buck Institute for Aging Research, Novato, California, United States of America

Julie Mangada

Affiliation Buck Institute for Aging Research, Novato, California, United States of America

Ying Liu

Affiliation Invitrogen, Carlsbad, California, United States of America

Andrzej Swistowski

Affiliation Buck Institute for Aging Research, Novato, California, United States of America

Ming Zhan

Affiliation National Institute of Aging, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Mahendra S. Rao

Affiliations Buck Institute for Aging Research, Novato, California, United States of America, Invitrogen, Carlsbad, California, United States of America

Xianmin Zeng

xzeng@buckinstitute.org

Affiliation Buck Institute for Aging Research, Novato, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

Liu and Rao are employees of Invitrogen Inc, but Invitrogen Inc did not play a role in the research.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MSR XZ. Performed the experiments: YH AM JM YL AS. Analyzed the data: YH AM JM YL AS MZ MSR XZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MSR XZ. Wrote the paper: YH AM JM MZ MSR XZ.