About the Authors

James K. Biedler

jbiedler@vt.edu (JKB); jaketu@vt.edu (ZT)

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Wanqi Hu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Hongseok Tae

Affiliation Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Zhijian Tu

jbiedler@vt.edu (JKB); jaketu@vt.edu (ZT)

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZT. Performed the experiments: JKB WH. Analyzed the data: ZT JKB WH HT. Wrote the paper: JKB WH HT ZT.