About the Authors

Mariya M. Kucherenko

Contributed equally to this work with: Mariya M. Kucherenko, Mario Pantoja

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Lviv, Ukraine

Mario Pantoja

Contributed equally to this work with: Mariya M. Kucherenko, Mario Pantoja

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Andriy S. Yatsenko

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Lviv, Ukraine

Halyna R. Shcherbata

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Karin A. Fischer

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Dariya V. Maksymiv

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Lviv, Ukraine

Yaroslava I. Chernyk

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Lviv, Ukraine

Hannele Ruohola-Baker

hannele@u.washington.edu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HR MK MP AY HS. Performed the experiments: HR MK MP AY HS KF DM YC. Analyzed the data: HR MK MP AY HS KF DM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HR HS YC. Wrote the paper: HR MK MP AY HS.