About the Authors

Xingguo Zhu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical College of Georgia and College of Graduate Studies, Georgia Health Sciences University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Yongchao Wang

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical College of Georgia and College of Graduate Studies, Georgia Health Sciences University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Wenhu Pi

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical College of Georgia and College of Graduate Studies, Georgia Health Sciences University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Hui Liu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Amittha Wickrema

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Dorothy Tuan

dtuanlo@georgiahealth.edu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical College of Georgia and College of Graduate Studies, Georgia Health Sciences University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XZ DT AW. Performed the experiments: XZ YW WP. Analyzed the data: XZ YW DT AW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HL AW. Wrote the paper: XZ DT.