About the Authors

Chengqun Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Chengqun Huang, Allen M. Andres

Affiliation The BioScience Center, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America

Allen M. Andres

Contributed equally to this work with: Chengqun Huang, Allen M. Andres

Affiliation The BioScience Center, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America

Eric P. Ratliff

Affiliation The BioScience Center, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America

Genaro Hernandez

Affiliation The BioScience Center, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America

Pamela Lee

Affiliation The BioScience Center, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America

Roberta A. Gottlieb

robbieg@sciences.sdsu.edu

Affiliation The BioScience Center, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CH AMA RAG. Performed the experiments: CH AMA EPR GH PL. Analyzed the data: RAG CH AMA GH. Wrote the paper: RAG CH AMA.