About the Authors

Yang Wang

Affiliations Key Laboratory for Molecular Enzymology and Engineering of Ministry of Education, Jilin University, Changchun, People's Republic of China, Center for Biomedical Engineering and Technology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Petek Ballar

Affiliation Center for Biomedical Engineering and Technology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Yongwang Zhong

Affiliation Center for Biomedical Engineering and Technology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Xuebao Zhang

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Chao Liu

Affiliation Center for Biomedical Engineering and Technology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Ying-Jiu Zhang

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Molecular Enzymology and Engineering of Ministry of Education, Jilin University, Changchun, People's Republic of China

Mervyn J. Monteiro

Affiliation Center for Biomedical Engineering and Technology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Jun Li

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Shengyun Fang

sfang@umaryland.edu

Affiliations Center for Biomedical Engineering and Technology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Physiology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YW SF. Performed the experiments: YW PB XZ YZ. Analyzed the data: YW PB SF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CL Y-JZ MJM JL. Wrote the paper: YW SF.