About the Authors

Shuguang Guo

Contributed equally to this work with: Shuguang Guo, Xiaoyun Shen

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, College of Life Science, Henan University, Kaifeng, People's Republic of China

Xiaoyun Shen

Contributed equally to this work with: Shuguang Guo, Xiaoyun Shen

Affiliation Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, Liaoning, People's Republic of China

Gonghong Yan

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Dongzhu Ma

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Xiaochun Bai

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Suoping Li

Affiliation College of Life Science, Henan University, Kaifeng, People's Republic of China

Yu Jiang

yuj5@pitt.edu

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SG XS YJ. Performed the experiments: SG XS GY DM XB YJ. Analyzed the data: SG XS GY DM XB YJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SL. Wrote the paper: YJ.