About the Authors

Mousumi Majumder

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

Elena Tutunea-Fatan

Contributed equally to this work with: Elena Tutunea-Fatan, Xiping Xin

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

Xiping Xin

Contributed equally to this work with: Elena Tutunea-Fatan, Xiping Xin

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

Mauricio Rodriguez-Torres

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

Jose Torres-Garcia

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

Ryan Wiebe

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

Alexander V. Timoshenko

Affiliations Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, Department of Biology, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

Rabindra N. Bhattacharjee

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

Ann F. Chambers

Affiliations Department of Medical Biophysics, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, Department of Oncology, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

Peeyush K. Lala

pklala@uwo.ca

Affiliations Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, Department of Oncology, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MM PKL. Performed the experiments: MM ETF XX AVT. Analyzed the data: MM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AFC. Wrote the paper: MM PKL. Microscopy: MRT JTG RW. Supervision of a research assistant RW: RNB.