About the Authors

Yanfang Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yanfang Wang, Sha Zhu

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Nutrition and Exercise Physiology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America, The Christopher S. Bond Life Science Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Sha Zhu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yanfang Wang, Sha Zhu

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America, The Christopher S. Bond Life Science Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Gary A. Weisman

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America, The Christopher S. Bond Life Science Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Jonathan D. Gitlin

Affiliation Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States of America

Michael J. Petris

petrism@missouri.edu

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Nutrition and Exercise Physiology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America, The Christopher S. Bond Life Science Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YW JDG MJP. Performed the experiments: YW SZ. Analyzed the data: YW SZ MJP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GAW. Wrote the paper: YW SZ JDG MJP.