About the Authors

Wai-Ping Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: Wai-Ping Lee, Sarita Jena, Paul D. Thompson

Affiliation School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Sarita Jena

Contributed equally to this work with: Wai-Ping Lee, Sarita Jena, Paul D. Thompson

Affiliation School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Declan Doherty

Affiliation School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Jaganathan Ventakesh

Affiliation School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Joachim Schimdt

Affiliation School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Julie Furmick

Affiliation Divison of Mathematical and Natural Sciences, Arizona State University at the West Campus, Glendale, Arizona, United States of America

Tim Widener

Affiliation Divison of Mathematical and Natural Sciences, Arizona State University at the West Campus, Glendale, Arizona, United States of America

Jana Lemau

Affiliation Divison of Mathematical and Natural Sciences, Arizona State University at the West Campus, Glendale, Arizona, United States of America

Peter W. Jurutka

Affiliation Divison of Mathematical and Natural Sciences, Arizona State University at the West Campus, Glendale, Arizona, United States of America

Paul D. Thompson

Contributed equally to this work with: Wai-Ping Lee, Sarita Jena, Paul D. Thompson

p.thompson@ulster.ac.uk

Affiliation School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PDT PWJ WPL SJ. Performed the experiments: WPL SJ DD JS JV JF TW JL. Analyzed the data: WPL SJ PWJ PDT. Wrote the paper: PDT.