About the Authors

Brian G. Rowan

browan@tulane.edu (BGR); Ernest.chiu@nyumc.org (ESC)

Affiliation Department of Structural and Cellular Biology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Jeffrey M. Gimble

Affiliation Stem Cell Biology Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Mei Sheng

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Muralidharan Anbalagan

Affiliation Department of Structural and Cellular Biology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Ryan K. Jones

Affiliation Department of Structural and Cellular Biology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Trivia P. Frazier

Affiliation Department of Structural and Cellular Biology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Majdouline Asher

Affiliation Department of Structural and Cellular Biology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Eduardo A. Lacayo

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Paul L. Friedlander

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Robert Kutner

Affiliation Gene Therapy Program, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Ernest S. Chiu

browan@tulane.edu (BGR); Ernest.chiu@nyumc.org (ESC)

Affiliation Department of Plastic Surgery, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BGR JMG ESC. Performed the experiments: MS MA RKJ TPF MA EAL. Analyzed the data: BGR JMG MS MA TPF EAL PLF ESC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JMG RK. Wrote the paper: BGR.