About the Authors

Thomas Karrasch

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Center for GI Biology and Disease, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Joo-Sung Kim

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Center for GI Biology and Disease, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Byung Ik Jang

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Center for GI Biology and Disease, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Christian Jobin

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: Job@med.unc.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Center for GI Biology and Disease, 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: CJ TK. Performed the experiments: TK JK BJ. Analyzed the data: CJ TK. Wrote the paper: CJ TK.