About the Authors

Valeriy Poroyko

Affiliation Department of Surgery, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

James Robert White

Affiliation Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Mei Wang

Affiliation Division of Nutritional Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, United States of America

Sharon Donovan

Affiliation Division of Nutritional Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, United States of America

John Alverdy

Affiliation Department of Surgery, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Donald C. Liu

Affiliations Department of Surgery, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Michael J. Morowitz

morowitz@uchicago.edu

Affiliations Department of Surgery, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

SD has received research funding from Bristol Myers Squibb. This company played no role in the planning, conduct, or analysis of the experiments in this manuscript. This relationship does not alter the authors' adherence to PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VAP SD MJM. Performed the experiments: VAP MW SD MJM. Analyzed the data: VAP JRW MJM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MW SD JCA DCL. Wrote the paper: VAP JRW MJM.