About the Authors

Jingjing Meng

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Haidong Yu

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Infection, Inflammation, and Vascular Biology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Jing Ma

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Infection, Inflammation, and Vascular Biology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Jinghua Wang

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Infection, Inflammation, and Vascular Biology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Santanu Banerjee

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Infection, Inflammation, and Vascular Biology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Rick Charboneau

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Roderick A. Barke

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Sabita Roy

royxx002@umn.edu

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Department of Surgery, Division of Infection, Inflammation, and Vascular Biology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Obtained funding and supervised the study: RAB SR. Conceived and designed the experiments: JMeng SR. Performed the experiments: JMeng HY JW. Analyzed the data: JMa SB JMeng. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RC RAB. Wrote the paper: JMeng.