About the Authors

Melisa Hendrata

Contributed equally to this work with: Melisa Hendrata, Zhe Yang

mhendra@calstatela.edu

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, California State University Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Zhe Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Melisa Hendrata, Zhe Yang

Affiliation Molecular Biology Institute, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Renate Lux

Affiliation School of Dentistry, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Wenyuan Shi

Affiliations Molecular Biology Institute, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, School of Dentistry, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MH ZY WS. Performed the experiments: MH ZY. Analyzed the data: MH ZY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MH ZY RL WS. Wrote the paper: MH ZY RL.