About the Authors

Anatoliy Kravets

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Hong Qin

Affiliation Department of Biology, Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Ausaf Ahmad

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Gabor Bethlendy

Affiliation Roche Diagnostics Corporation, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Qinshan Gao

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Elena Rustchenko

elena_bulgac@urmc.rochester.edu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

Pfizer Inc., which gave a small grant some time ago to Fred Sherman, had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ER. Performed the experiments: AK AA GB QG. Analyzed the data: HQ ER. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GB. Wrote the paper: ER. Performed statistical analysis: HQ.