About the Authors

Qunyan Jin

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Penn State Hershey College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Guangming Liu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Penn State Hershey College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Phillip P. Domeier

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Penn State Hershey College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Wei Ding

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Penn State Hershey College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Kathleen M. Mulder

kmm15@psu.edu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Penn State Hershey College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KMM. Performed the experiments: QJ GL PPD WD. Analyzed the data: KMM QJ GL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KMM. Wrote the paper: KMM QJ.