About the Authors

Tong Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Tong Zhou, Eun A. Ko

Affiliations Institute for Personalized Respiratory Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep & Allergy, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Eun A. Ko

Contributed equally to this work with: Tong Zhou, Eun A. Ko

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Wanjun Gu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Child Development and Learning Science of Ministry of Education of China, Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Inja Lim

Affiliation Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, South Korea

Hyoweon Bang

Affiliation Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, South Korea

Jae-Hong Ko

akdongyi01@cau.ac.kr

Affiliation Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, South Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TZ EAK WG IL HWB JHK. Performed the experiments: TZ EAK. Analyzed the data: TZ EAK. Wrote the paper: TZ EAK WG IL HWB JHK.