About the Authors

Kyeong Soo Jeong

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America , Biotechnology Institute, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Yang Xie

Affiliations Biotechnology Institute, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America , Division of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Hiroshi Hiasa

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Arkady B Khodursky

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: khodu001@umn.edu

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America , Biotechnology Institute, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

KSJ and ABK conceived and designed the experiments. KSJ and HH performed the experiments. KSJ, YX, and ABK analyzed the data. HH and ABK contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. KSJ and ABK wrote the paper.