About the Authors

Cheng Wang

chengwang@unmc.edu (CW); jsdavis@unmc.edu (JSD)

Affiliation Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Olson Center for Women's Health, College of Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Xiangmin Lv

Affiliations Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Olson Center for Women's Health, College of Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America, Key Laboratory of Protein Chemistry and Developmental Biology of Education Ministry of China, College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan, China

Chao Jiang

Affiliation Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Olson Center for Women's Health, College of Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Crystal M. Cordes

Affiliation Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Olson Center for Women's Health, College of Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Lan Fu

Affiliation Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Olson Center for Women's Health, College of Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Subodh M. Lele

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Microbiology, College of Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

John S. Davis

chengwang@unmc.edu (CW); jsdavis@unmc.edu (JSD)

Affiliations Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Olson Center for Women's Health, College of Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America, VA Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CW JSD. Performed the experiments: CW XL SML. Analyzed the data: CW JSD SML. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CJ CMC LF SML JSD. Wrote the paper: CW CMC JSD.