About the Authors

Yun Lu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yun Lu, Christopher Futtner

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Christopher Futtner

Contributed equally to this work with: Yun Lu, Christopher Futtner

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Jason R. Rock

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Xia Xu

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Walter Whitworth

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Brigid L. M. Hogan

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Mark W. Onaitis

mark.onaitis@duke.edu

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YL CRF JRR BLMH MWO. Performed the experiments: YL CRF JRR XX WW MWO. Analyzed the data: YL CRF JRR BLMH MWO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YL CRF JRR BLMH MWO. Wrote the paper: YL CRF BLMH MWO.