About the Authors

Li Zhou

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Hong Y. Choi

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Wei-Ping Li

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Fang Xu

Affiliation Department of Human Nutrition, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Joachim Herz

joachim.herz@utsouthwestern.edu

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LZ HYC JH. Performed the experiments: LZ HYC WPL FX. Analyzed the data: LZ HYC JH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LZ JH. Wrote the paper: LZ JH.