About the Authors

Ruchi Sharma

Affiliation Translational Biology and Molecular Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Eric Buras

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Tomoya Terashima

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Faridis Serrano

Affiliation Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Cynthia A. Massaad

Affiliation Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Lingyun Hu

Affiliation Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Brittany Bitner

Affiliation Translational Biology and Molecular Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Taeko Inoue

Affiliation Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Lawrence Chan

Affiliations Translational Biology and Molecular Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Robia G. Pautler

rpautler@bcm.edu

Affiliations Translational Biology and Molecular Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RAS EDB TT FS CAM TI LC RGP. Performed the experiments: RAS EDB TT FS CAM LH TI. Analyzed the data: RAS EDB TT FS CAM LH TI. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LC RGP. Wrote the paper: RAS LC RGP.