About the Authors

Xinmin Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xinmin Zhang, Qun Yu

Affiliations Department of Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, People's Republic of China

Qun Yu

Contributed equally to this work with: Xinmin Zhang, Qun Yu

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Lars Olsen

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Xin Bi

xinbi@mail.rochester.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XB. Performed the experiments: XZ QY LO. Analyzed the data: XB XZ QY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XZ QY LO XB. Wrote the paper: XB.