About the Authors

Yong-guo Zhang

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Shaoping Wu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Yinglin Xia

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Di Chen

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Elaine O. Petrof

Affiliation GI Diseases Research Unit and Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Erika C. Claud

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics and Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Wei Hsu

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Genetics, Center for Oral Biology, and James P Wilmot Cancer Center, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Jun Sun

jun_sun@rush.edu

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Gastroenterology and Hepatology Division, Department of Medicine, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Performed the experiments: YZ SW. Analyzed the data: YZ SW YX DC EOP ECC WH JS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YX DC EOP ECC WH JS. Wrote the paper: YZ SW YX DC EOP ECC WH JS.