About the Authors

Yemin Shi

Affiliation Molecular and Computational Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Hanbin Liu

Affiliation Chemistry Department, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Dahai Gai

Affiliation Molecular and Computational Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Jianpeng Ma

Affiliations Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Xiaojiang S. Chen

xiaojiac@usc.edu

Affiliations Molecular and Computational Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Chemistry Department, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YS HL DG JM XSC. Performed the experiments: YS. Analyzed the data: YS HL DG XSC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YS HL XSC. Wrote the paper: YS HL JM XSC.