About the Authors

Kelvin Yen

Contributed equally to this work with: Kelvin Yen, Thuc T. Le

Affiliation Program in Gene Function and Expression, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Thuc T. Le

Contributed equally to this work with: Kelvin Yen, Thuc T. Le

Affiliation Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Ankita Bansal

Affiliation Program in Gene Function and Expression, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Sri Devi Narasimhan

Affiliation Program in Gene Function and Expression, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ji-Xin Cheng

jcheng@purdue.edu (J-XC); Heidi.Tissenbaum@umassmed.edu (HAT)

Affiliations Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America, Purdue Cancer Center, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America, Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Heidi A. Tissenbaum

jcheng@purdue.edu (J-XC); Heidi.Tissenbaum@umassmed.edu (HAT)

Affiliations Program in Gene Function and Expression, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America, Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KY TTL JXC HAT. Performed the experiments: KY TTL AB SDN. Analyzed the data: KY TTL AB SDN JXC HAT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KY TTL JXC. Wrote the paper: KY TTL JXC HAT.