About the Authors

Fernando Alvarez-Vasquez

alvarezf@ccg.unam.mx

Current address: Programa de Genómica Computacional, Centro de Ciencias Genómicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America, Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Howard Riezman

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Yusuf A. Hannun

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America

Eberhard O. Voit

Affiliation Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FAV EOV YH HR. Performed the experiments: FAV EOV. Analyzed the data: FAV EOV YH HR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FAV EOV YH. Wrote the paper: FAV EOV YH HR.