About the Authors

Jiping Zhou

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Denise G. Joplin

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Janet V. Cross

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Dennis J. Templeton

dtempleton@virginia.edu.

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

DJT is an academic editor of PLOS One.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JZ JVC DJT. Performed the experiments: JZ DGJ JVC. Analyzed the data: JZ DGJ JVC DJT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JZ DGJ JVC DJT. Wrote the paper: JZ JVC DJT.