About the Authors

Yu Meng

Affiliation Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Istvan Sohar

Affiliation Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Lingling Wang

Affiliation Vivarium, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey – Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

David E. Sleat

Affiliations Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey – Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Peter Lobel

lobel@cabm.rutgers.edu

Affiliations Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey – Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YM DES PL. Performed the experiments: YM IS LW DES. Analyzed the data: YM IS DES PL. Wrote the paper: YM DES PL.