About the Authors

Andrzej T. Slominski

aslominski@uthsc.edu

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Zorica Janjetovic

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Brian E. Fuller

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Michal A. Zmijewski

Affiliation Department of Molecular Enzymology, Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology University of Gdansk and Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland

Robert C. Tuckey

Affiliation School of Biomedical, Biomolecular and Chemical Sciences, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia

Minh N. Nguyen

Affiliation School of Biomedical, Biomolecular and Chemical Sciences, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia

Trevor Sweatman

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and the Center for Cancer Research, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Wei Li

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Jordan Zjawiony

Affiliation Department of Pharmacognosy and Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Mississippi, University, Mississippi, United States of America

Duane Miller

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Tai C. Chen

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Gerard Lozanski

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, State University of Ohio, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Michael F. Holick

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ATS ZJ TC MH. Performed the experiments: ZJ BEF MAZ RCT MNN TS WL TC. Analyzed the data: ATS ZJ MAZ RCT TS WL JKZ DM TC GL MH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ATS MAZ RCT MNN WL JKZ DM TC GL MH. Wrote the paper: ATS ZJ RCT GL.