Acknowledgement
Authors would like to extend their thanks to Professor Chang-Deng Hu (Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology and Purdue Cancer Center, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN) for kindly gifting them the BiFC constructs using fragments derived from newly engineered fluorescent protein-Venus.
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