About the Authors

Sherri L. Christian

sherri.christian@mun.ca (SLC); kensuke@mun.ca (KH)

Current address: Department of Biochemistry, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada

Affiliation Division of Biomedical Science, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada

Dong Zu

Affiliation Division of Biomedical Science, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada

Maria Licursi

Affiliation Division of Biomedical Science, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada

Yumiko Komatsu

Affiliation Division of Biomedical Science, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada

Theerawat Pongnopparat

Affiliation Division of Biomedical Science, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada

Dianne A. Codner

Affiliation Division of Biomedical Science, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada

Kensuke Hirasawa

sherri.christian@mun.ca (SLC); kensuke@mun.ca (KH)

Affiliation Division of Biomedical Science, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SLC KH. Performed the experiments: SLC DZ ML YK TP DC. Analyzed the data: SLC DZ ML YK TP. Wrote the paper: SLC KH.