About the Authors

WenZhi Jiang

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

Bing Yang

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Donald P. Weeks

dweeks1@unl.edu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WJ BY DPW. Performed the experiments: WJ. Analyzed the data: WJ BY DPW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WJ. Wrote the paper: WJ BY DPW.