About the Authors

Hwan Ki Park

Contributed equally to this work with: Hwan Ki Park, Hong Wang

Affiliation The Hormel Institute, University of Minnesota, Austin, Minnesota, United States of America

Hong Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Hwan Ki Park, Hong Wang

Current address: Department of Gastroenterology, First Municipal People's Hospital of Guangzhou, First Affiliated Hospital Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Jun Zhang

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Suvamoy Datta

Affiliation The Hormel Institute, University of Minnesota, Austin, Minnesota, United States of America

Peiwen Fei

pfei@hi.umn.edu

Affiliation The Hormel Institute, University of Minnesota, Austin, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HKP HW PF. Performed the experiments: HKP HW. Analyzed the data: HKP HW JZ PF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HKP HW JZ SD. Wrote the paper: HKP HW PF.