About the Authors

Ece Selçuk

Contributed equally to this work with: Ece Selçuk, Koray Kırımtay

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey

Koray Kırımtay

Contributed equally to this work with: Ece Selçuk, Koray Kırımtay

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey

Derya Canbaz

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey

Güher Işık Cesur

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey

Sirin Korulu

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey

Arzu Karabay

karabaya@itu.edu.tr

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AK KK ES. Performed the experiments: ES KK DC GIC. Analyzed the data: ES KK SK AK. Wrote the paper: ES KK SK AK.