About the Authors

Tewarit Sarachana

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Minyi Xu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Ray-Chang Wu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Valerie W. Hu

bcmvwh@gwumc.edu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VWH. Performed the experiments: TS MX. Analyzed the data: TS MX VWH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RW. Wrote the manuscript: VWH TS.