About the Authors

Tong Shen

Contributed equally to this work with: Tong Shen, Ye-Hong Kuang

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions, St. John's University, Queens, New York, United States of America

Ye-Hong Kuang

Contributed equally to this work with: Tong Shen, Ye-Hong Kuang

Affiliations Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions, St. John's University, Queens, New York, United States of America, Department of Dermatology, Xiang Ya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China

Charles R. Ashby Jr

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions, St. John's University, Queens, New York, United States of America

Yu Lei

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions, St. John's University, Queens, New York, United States of America

Angel Chen

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions, St. John's University, Queens, New York, United States of America

Ying Zhou

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions, St. John's University, Queens, New York, United States of America

Xiang Chen

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Xiang Ya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China

Amit K. Tiwari

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions, St. John's University, Queens, New York, United States of America

Elizabeth Hopper-Borge

Affiliation Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jiangyong Ouyang

Current address: Department of Pathology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions, St. John's University, Queens, New York, United States of America

Zhe-Sheng Chen

Chenz@stjohns.edu

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions, St. John's University, Queens, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CRAJ XC EHB ZSC. Performed the experiments: TS YHK YL AC YZ AKT EHB JO. Analyzed the data: TS YHK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CRAJ YZ XC EHB ZSC. Wrote the paper: TS CRAJ ZSC.