About the Authors

Qiusha Guo

Affiliations Vascular Biology and Cancer Centers and Departments of Medicine and Molecular Science, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Gastroenterology, Zhongnan Hospital, Wuhan University Medical School, Wuhan, China, Internal Medicine, Renal Division, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Bing Xia

xin-zhang-1@ouhsc.edu (XAZ); bingxiawh@gmail.com (BX)

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Zhongnan Hospital, Wuhan University Medical School, Wuhan, China

Feng Zhang

Affiliation Vascular Biology and Cancer Centers and Departments of Medicine and Molecular Science, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Mekel M. Richardson

Affiliation Vascular Biology and Cancer Centers and Departments of Medicine and Molecular Science, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Minghao Li

Affiliation Vascular Biology and Cancer Centers and Departments of Medicine and Molecular Science, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Julian S. Zhang

Affiliation Vascular Biology and Cancer Centers and Departments of Medicine and Molecular Science, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Feng Chen

Affiliation Internal Medicine, Renal Division, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Xin A. Zhang

xin-zhang-1@ouhsc.edu (XAZ); bingxiawh@gmail.com (BX)

Affiliation Vascular Biology and Cancer Centers and Departments of Medicine and Molecular Science, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QG BX XAZ. Performed the experiments: QG FZ MMR ML JSZ. Analyzed the data: QG XAZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FC XAZ. Wrote the paper: QG FC XAZ.