About the Authors

Juan Cui

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Joanna B. Eldredge

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Ying Xu

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China

David Puett

puett@bmb.uga.edu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JC DP. Performed the experiments: JC JE. Analyzed the data: JC JE YX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DP YX. Wrote the paper: JC DP.