About the Authors

Sreedevi Avasarala

Contributed equally to this work with: Sreedevi Avasarala, Fangfang Zhang

Current address: Department of Medicine, University of Colorado, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Oral Biology and Pathology, School of Dental Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Fangfang Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Sreedevi Avasarala, Fangfang Zhang

Affiliation Department of Oral Biology and Pathology, School of Dental Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Guangliang Liu

Affiliation Department of Oral Biology and Pathology, School of Dental Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Ruixue Wang

Affiliation Department of Oral Biology and Pathology, School of Dental Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Steven D. London

Affiliation Department of Oral Biology and Pathology, School of Dental Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Lucille London

lucille.london@stonybrook.edu

Affiliation Department of Oral Biology and Pathology, School of Dental Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SA FZ SDL LL. Performed the experiments: SA FZ RW GL. Analyzed the data: SA FZ GL SDL LL. Wrote the paper: SA FZ LL.