About the Authors

Swetha Parvathaneni

Contributed equally to this work with: Swetha Parvathaneni, Alexei Stortchevoi

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Medicine, Howard University, Washington, DC, United States of America

Alexei Stortchevoi

Contributed equally to this work with: Swetha Parvathaneni, Alexei Stortchevoi

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Medicine, Howard University, Washington, DC, United States of America

Joshua A. Sommers

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Gerontology, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Robert M. Brosh Jr

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Gerontology, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Sudha Sharma

sudha.sharma@howard.edu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Medicine, Howard University, Washington, DC, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Performed radioactive helicase assays in RB’s lab: JAS. Conceived and designed the experiments: SS. Performed the experiments: SP AS SS. Analyzed the data: SP AS JAS RB SS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SS RB. Wrote the paper: SS RB.