About the Authors

Zengli Yu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Ping Li

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Mei Zhang

Affiliation Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore, Singapore

Mark Hannink

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Life Science Center, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Jonathan S. Stamler

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Zhen Yan

zhen.yan@duke.edu

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore, Singapore

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JS Z. Yan Z. Yu PL. Performed the experiments: Z. Yu PL MZ. Analyzed the data: Z. Yan Z. Yu MZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: Z. Yan MH. Wrote the paper: JS Z. Yan.