About the Authors

Zhenggang Yang

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America, State Key Laboratory of Infectious Disease Diagnosis and Treatment, First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University, Hang Zhou, China

Xianfeng Wang

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Yin He

Affiliation Graduate Program in Genetics and Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Ling Qi

Affiliations Graduate Program in Genetics and Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America, Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Liqing Yu

Affiliation Department of Animal Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Bingzhong Xue

bxue@gsu.edu (BX); hshi3@gsu.edu (HS)

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Biology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Hang Shi

bxue@gsu.edu (BX); hshi3@gsu.edu (HS)

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Biology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HS BX ZY LY. Performed the experiments: ZY XW YH. Analyzed the data: ZY HS BX YH LQ LY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YH LQ LY. Wrote the paper: HS BX ZY.