About the Authors

Young-Eun Joo

Current address: Department of Internal Medicine, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, South Korea

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Thomas Karrasch

Current address: Department of Internal Medicine I University Hospital, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Marcus Mühlbauer

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Brigitte Allard

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Acharan Narula

Affiliation Narula Research, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Hans H. Herfarth

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Christian Jobin

job@med.unc.edu

Affiliations Department of Medicine and Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CJ. Performed the experiments: YEJ TK MM BA. Analyzed the data: YEJ CJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AN HHH. Wrote the paper: YEJ CJ.