About the Authors

Sheelarani Karunanithi
Jyoti Joshi

Current address: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Medicine and Dentistry, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America,

Colin Chavel
Barbara Birkaya
Laura Grell

Current address: New York State Center for Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Paul J. Cullen

pjcullen@buffalo.edu

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, State University of New York-Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PC SK. Performed the experiments: PC SK BB CC JJ. Analyzed the data: PC SK LG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LG. Wrote the paper: PC SK.