About the Authors

Jessica N. Saykally

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Soner Dogan

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Margot P. Cleary

Affiliation The Hormel Institute, University of Minnesota, Austin, Minnesota, United States of America

Michel M. Sanders

sande001@umn.edu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JNS SD MPC MMS. Performed the experiments: JNS SD. Analyzed the data: JNS MMS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JNS MPC. Wrote the paper: JNS MMS. Edited the paper: JNS SD MPC MMS. Conceived and designed all figures except Figure 1A: JNS. Analyzed the data in all figures except Figure 1A: JNS MMS. Conceived and designed Figure 1A: SD MPC. Analyzed the data in Figure 1A: SD. Contributed the tissues for Figure 1A: SD.