About the Authors

Pawan Gupta

Affiliation Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India

Ping-Chih Ho

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

Sung Gil Ha

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

Yi-Wei Lin

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

Li-Na Wei

weixx009@umn.edu

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PG PCH LNW. Performed the experiments: PG PCH SGH YWL. Analyzed the data: PG LNW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LNW. Wrote the paper: PG LNW. Financial support: LNW.