About the Authors

Yong-guo Zhang

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Rush University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Shaoping Wu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Rush University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Yinglin Xia

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Jun Sun

jun_sun@rush.edu

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Rush University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Gastroenterology and Hepatology Division, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YZ SW YX JS. Performed the experiments: YZ SW. Analyzed the data: YZ SW YX JS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YX JS. Wrote the paper: YZ SW YX JS.