About the Authors

Liu Yang

Affiliation Graduate Program in Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Zhen Xue

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhen Xue, Yin He, Shengyi Sun

Affiliation Graduate Program in Nutrition, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Yin He

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhen Xue, Yin He, Shengyi Sun

Affiliation Graduate Program in Genetics and Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Shengyi Sun

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhen Xue, Yin He, Shengyi Sun

Affiliation Graduate Program in Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Hui Chen

Affiliation Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Ling Qi

lq35@cornell.edu

Affiliations Graduate Program in Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America, Graduate Program in Nutrition, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America, Graduate Program in Genetics and Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America, Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LY LQ. Performed the experiments: LY ZX SS. Analyzed the data: LY ZX SS LQ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HC. Wrote the paper: YH LQ.