About the Authors

Shakun Karki

Affiliation Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Partha Chakrabarti

Affiliation Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Guanrong Huang

Affiliation Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Hong Wang

Affiliation Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Stephen R. Farmer

Affiliation Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Konstantin V. Kandror

kkandror@bu.edu

Affiliation Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SRF KVK. Performed the experiments: SK PC GH HW. Analyzed the data: SK PC HW SRF KVK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HW. Wrote the paper: KVK.