About the Authors

Ling-Zhi Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Ling-Zhi Liu, Yue Jiang

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Anatomy and Cell Biology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Yue Jiang

Contributed equally to this work with: Ling-Zhi Liu, Yue Jiang

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Anatomy and Cell Biology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Richard L. Carpenter

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Anatomy and Cell Biology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Yi Jing

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Anatomy and Cell Biology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Stephen C. Peiper

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Anatomy and Cell Biology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Bing-Hua Jiang

bhjiang@jefferson.edu

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Anatomy and Cell Biology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BHJ LZL. Performed the experiments: LZL Yue Jiang RLC Yi Jing. Analyzed the data: Yue Jiang LZL RLC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SCP. Wrote the paper: LZL SCP BHJ.