About the Authors

Ying Liu

Affiliation Department of Computational and Systems Biology, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Lila M. Gierasch

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ivet Bahar

bahar@pitt.edu

Affiliation Department of Computational and Systems Biology, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YL IB. Performed the experiments: YL. Analyzed the data: YL LMG IB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YL IB. Wrote the paper: YL LMG IB.