About the Authors

Kasirajan Ayyanathan

Contributed equally to this work with: Kasirajan Ayyanathan, Shailaja Kesaraju

kayyanat@fau.edu

Affiliations Center for Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Florida Atlantic University, Jupiter, Florida, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, United States of America

Shailaja Kesaraju

Contributed equally to this work with: Kasirajan Ayyanathan, Shailaja Kesaraju

Affiliation Center for Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Florida Atlantic University, Jupiter, Florida, United States of America

Ken Dawson-Scully

Affiliations Center for Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Florida Atlantic University, Jupiter, Florida, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, United States of America

Herbert Weissbach

Affiliation Center for Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Florida Atlantic University, Jupiter, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KA SK KDS HW. Performed the experiments: KA SK. Analyzed the data: KA SK HW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KDS. Wrote the paper: KA SK HW.