About the Authors

Nima Sharifai

Contributed equally to this work with: Nima Sharifai, Hasitha Samarajeewa

Affiliations Department of Biology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, United States of America, Miami Institute of Molecular Imaging and Computation, Coral Gables, Florida, United States of America

Hasitha Samarajeewa

Contributed equally to this work with: Nima Sharifai, Hasitha Samarajeewa

Affiliations Department of Biology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, United States of America, Miami Institute of Molecular Imaging and Computation, Coral Gables, Florida, United States of America

Daichi Kamiyama

Affiliations Department of Biology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, United States of America, Miami Institute of Molecular Imaging and Computation, Coral Gables, Florida, United States of America, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Tzyy-Chyn Deng

Affiliations Department of Biology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, United States of America, Miami Institute of Molecular Imaging and Computation, Coral Gables, Florida, United States of America

Maria Boulina

Affiliations Department of Biology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, United States of America, Miami Institute of Molecular Imaging and Computation, Coral Gables, Florida, United States of America

Akira Chiba

akira.chiba@miami.edu.

Affiliations Department of Biology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, United States of America, Miami Institute of Molecular Imaging and Computation, Coral Gables, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AC DK TD MB HS NS. Performed the experiments: NS HS TD MB. Analyzed the data: NS HS AC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TD MB HS DK. Wrote the paper: AC.