About the Authors

Xingjun Fan

xxf3@cwru.edu (XF); vmm3@case.edu (VMM)

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Xiaoqin Liu

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Shuyu Hao

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Benlian Wang

Affiliation Case Center for Proteomics and Mass Spectrometry, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Michael L. Robinson

Affiliation Department of Zoology, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, United States of America

Vincent M. Monnier

xxf3@cwru.edu (XF); vmm3@case.edu (VMM)

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XF VMM. Performed the experiments: XF XL SH BW. Analyzed the data: XF VMM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MLR. Wrote the paper: XF VMM.