About the Authors

Song Ling

jholo@med.umich.edu (JH); songlin@med.unich.edu (SL)

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Andrew Cheng

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Paul Pumpens

Affiliation Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Center, Riga, Latvia

Marek Michalak

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Joseph Holoshitz

jholo@med.umich.edu (JH); songlin@med.unich.edu (SL)

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SL PP MM JH. Performed the experiments: SL AC. Analyzed the data: SL AC JH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PP MM. Wrote the paper: SL JH. Read the manuscript: AC PP. Edited the manuscript: MM.