About the Authors

Sharon J. Miller

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Bishnu P. Joshi

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Ying Feng

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Adam Gaustad

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Eric R. Fearon

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Cancer Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Thomas D. Wang

thomaswa@umich.edu

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Cancer Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Competing Interests

The University of Michigan has filed a patent disclosure on behalf of Sharon Miller, Bishnu Joshi, and Thomas Wang on the fluorescence-labeled peptide (QPIHPNNM) presented in this study. The authors have received no financial support from the Technology Transfer Office at the University of Michigan.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SJM TDW. Performed the experiments: SJM BPJ AG. Analyzed the data: SJM TDW BPJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ERF YF. Wrote the manuscript: SJM TDW ERF.