About the Authors

Simanta Pathak

Contributed equally to this work with: Simanta Pathak, Shibin Ma

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Shibin Ma

Contributed equally to this work with: Simanta Pathak, Shibin Ma

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Long Trinh

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

James Eudy

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Kay-Uwe Wagner

Affiliation Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer and Allied Diseases, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Shantaram S. Joshi

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Runqing Lu

rlu@unmc.edu

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SP SM RL. Performed the experiments: SP SM LT. Analyzed the data: SP SM JE SJ RL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KW. Wrote the paper: RL.