About the Authors

Maria Marchetti

Affiliation Center for Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, United States of America

Lionel Resnick

Affiliation Center for Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, United States of America

Edna Gamliel

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, United States of America

Shailaja Kesaraju

Affiliation Center for Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, United States of America

Herbert Weissbach

Affiliation Center for Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, United States of America

David Binninger

binninge@fau.edu

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, United States of America, Center for Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MM HW DB. Performed the experiments: MM EG SK. Analyzed the data: MM LR EG SK HW DB. Wrote the paper: MM HW DB.