About the Authors

Pan Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Pan Wang, Hyoung-Woo Bai

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutics, School of Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Hyoung-Woo Bai

Contributed equally to this work with: Pan Wang, Hyoung-Woo Bai

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutics, School of Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Bao Ting Zhu

BTZhu@kumc.edu

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutics, School of Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PW HWB BTZ. Performed the experiments: PW HWB. Analyzed the data: PW HWB BTZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BTZ. Wrote the paper: PW HWB BTZ.