About the Authors

Ge Jin

ge.jin@case.edu

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Hameem I. Kawsar

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Stanley A. Hirsch

Affiliation Department of Oral Pathology, Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Chun Zeng

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Xun Jia

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Zhimin Feng

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Santosh K. Ghosh

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Qing Yin Zheng

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Aimin Zhou

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Thomas M. McIntyre

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Aaron Weinberg

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GJ HIK. Performed the experiments: GJ HIK CZ XJ SKG AZ. Analyzed the data: GJ HIK SAH AZ AW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HIK SAH ZF QZ AZ TMM AW. Wrote the paper: GJ. Edited the paper: AW.