About the Authors

Jae-Joon Jung

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Shivangi M. Inamdar

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Ajit Tiwari

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Ding Ye

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Fang Lin

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Amit Choudhury

amit-choudhury@uiowa.edu

Affiliations Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America, Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AC JJJ. Performed the experiments: JJJ SMI AT. Analyzed the data: JJJ SMI AT DY FL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JJJ SMI DY FL. Wrote the paper: JJJ AC.