About the Authors

Miaozong Wu

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, United States of America, Cell Differentiation and Development Center, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, United States of America

Anjaiah Katta

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Toxicology, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, United States of America

Murali K. Gadde

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, United States of America, Cell Differentiation and Development Center, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, United States of America

Hua Liu

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, United States of America, Cell Differentiation and Development Center, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, United States of America, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Southeast University, Nanjing, China

Sunil K. Kakarla

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Toxicology, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, United States of America

Jacqueline Fannin

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Toxicology, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, United States of America

Satyanarayana Paturi

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, United States of America, Cell Differentiation and Development Center, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, United States of America

Ravi K. Arvapalli

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, United States of America, Cell Differentiation and Development Center, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, United States of America

Kevin M. Rice

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, United States of America, Cell Differentiation and Development Center, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, United States of America, Department of Exercise Science, Sport and Recreation, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, United States of America

Yeling Wang

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, United States of America, Cell Differentiation and Development Center, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, United States of America, The First Hospital, Jilin University, Jilin, China

Eric R. Blough

blough@marshall.edu

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, United States of America, Cell Differentiation and Development Center, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Toxicology, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, United States of America, Department of Exercise Science, Sport and Recreation, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MW ERB. Performed the experiments: MW AK MKG HL SKK JF SP RKA KMR YW. Analyzed the data: MW ERB. Wrote the paper: MW ERB.