About the Authors

Marta Codina

Affiliations Center of Marine Biotechnology, Biotechnology Institute, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Physiology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Junling Li

Affiliation Center of Marine Biotechnology, Biotechnology Institute, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Joaquim Gutiérrez

Affiliation Department of Physiology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Joseph P. Y. Kao

Affiliations Medical Biotechnology Center, Biotechnology Institute, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Center for Biomedical Engineering and Technology, and Department of Physiology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Shao Jun Du

dus@umbi.umd.edu

Affiliations Center of Marine Biotechnology, Biotechnology Institute, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Interdisciplinary Training Program in Muscle Biology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MC SJD. Performed the experiments: MC JL SJD. Analyzed the data: MC SJD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JPYK. Wrote the paper: SJD. Reviewed the manuscript.