About the Authors

Jianfei Guo

Contributed equally to this work with: Jianfei Guo, Yan Feng

Current address: Department of Radiology, Southwestern Medical Center, University of Texas, Dallas, Texas, United States of America,

Yan Feng

Contributed equally to this work with: Jianfei Guo, Yan Feng

Current address: Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, Institutes of Medical Sciences, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China,

Peter Barnes
Fang-Fang Huang
Steven Idell
Dong-Ming Su

Current address: Health Science Center, University of North Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, United States of America

Homayoun Shams

homayoun.shams@uthct.edu

Affiliation Health Science Center, The University of Texas, Tyler, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have the following conflict: Dr. Shams is a PLoS ONE Editorial Board member. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HS DS. Performed the experiments: JG YF FH PB SI DS HS. Analyzed the data: JG YF FH PB SI DS HS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DS HS. Wrote the paper: JG YF PB FH SI DS HS.