About the Authors

Darko Stefanovski

stefanov@usc.edu

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Joyce M. Richey

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Orison Woolcott

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Maya Lottati

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Dan Zheng

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Lisa N. Harrison

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Viorica Ionut

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Stella P. Kim

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Isabel Hsu

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Richard N. Bergman

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DS JMR SPK RNB. Performed the experiments: DS OW ML LNH IH DZ. Analyzed the data: DS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DS. Wrote the paper: DS JMR. Review of article: VI RNB JMR.