About the Authors

Xiang Hong Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiang Hong Li, Cam T. Ha

Affiliation Radiation Countermeasures Program, Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Cam T. Ha

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiang Hong Li, Cam T. Ha

Affiliation Radiation Countermeasures Program, Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Dadin Fu

Affiliation Radiation Countermeasures Program, Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Mang Xiao

mang.xiao@usuhs.edu

Affiliation Radiation Countermeasures Program, Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MX XHL CTH DF. Performed the experiments: XHL CTH DF MX. Analyzed the data: XHL CTH DF MX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XHL CTH DF. Wrote the paper: MX.