About the Authors

Yan Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yan Zhang, Junyan Xu

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Junyan Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yan Zhang, Junyan Xu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Separation Science for Analytical Chemistry, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, China

Zhiwei Wang

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Xiuli Zhang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Separation Science for Analytical Chemistry, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, China

Xinmiao Liang

liangxm@dicp.ac.cn (XL); ocivelli@uci.edu (OC)

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Separation Science for Analytical Chemistry, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, China

Olivier Civelli

liangxm@dicp.ac.cn (XL); ocivelli@uci.edu (OC)

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America, Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: OC XL. Performed the experiments: YZ JX ZW. Analyzed the data: YZ JX ZW XZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: OC XL. Wrote the paper: YZ OC.