About the Authors

Chi Zhang

Affiliation Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America

Timothy F. Carl

Affiliation Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America

Evan D. Trudeau

Affiliation Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America

Thomas Simmet

Affiliation Institute of Pharmacology of Natural Products and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Michael W. Klymkowsky

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: klym@spot.colorado.edu

Affiliation Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MK CZ TC. Performed the experiments: MK CZ TC ET. Analyzed the data: MK CZ TC ET. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TS. Wrote the paper: MK CZ.