About the Authors

Gabriel E. Weinreb

Contributed equally to this work with: Gabriel E. Weinreb, Maryna T. Kapustina

weinreb@med.unc.edu

Affiliation Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Maryna T. Kapustina

Contributed equally to this work with: Gabriel E. Weinreb, Maryna T. Kapustina

Affiliation Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Ken Jacobson

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Lineberger Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Timothy C. Elston

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GEEW KJ TCE. Performed the experiments: GEEW MK. Analyzed the data: GEEW MK KJ TCE. Wrote the paper: GEEW MK KJ TCE.