About the Authors

Juan-Juan Yin

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Sonali Sharma

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Stepan P. Shumyak

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Zhi-Xin Wang

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Zhi-Wei Zhou

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Yangde Zhang

Affiliation National Hepatobiliary and Enteric Surgery Research Center, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China

Peixuan Guo

Affiliation Nanobiotechnology Center and Markey Cancer Center, College of Pharmacy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Chen-Zhong Li

Affiliation Nanobioengineering and Bioelectronics Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Jagat R. Kanwar

Affiliation Nanomedicine-Laboratory of Immunology and Molecular Biomedical Research (LIMBR), Centre for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Biosciences and Institute for Frontier Materials (IFM), Deakin University, Waurn Ponds, Victoria, Australia

Tianxin Yang

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah and Salt Lake Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Shyam S. Mohapatra

Affiliation Nanomedicine Research Center and Division of Translational Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Wanqing Liu

Affiliation Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Wei Duan

Affiliation School of Medicine, Deakin University, Waurn Ponds, Victoria, Australia

Jian-Cheng Wang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs, School of Pharmaceutical Science, Peking University, Beijing, China

Qi Li

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Shuguang Hospital (Western Campus), Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China

Xueji Zhang

Affiliation Research Center for Bioengineering and Sensing Technology, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China

Jun Tan

Affiliations James A. Haley Veterans' Administration Hospital, Tampa, Florida, United States of America, Department of Neurosurgery and Brain Repair, Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, Silver Child Development Center, Rashid Laboratory for Developmental Neurobiology, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Lee Jia

Affiliation Cancer Metastasis Alert and Prevention Center, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, China

Jun Liang

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Ming Q. Wei

Affiliation School of Medical Science, Division of Molecular and Gene Therapies, Griffith Health Institute, Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus, Australia

Xiaotian Li

Affiliation Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital and Institute of Biomedicine, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Shu-Feng Zhou

szhou@health.usf.edu

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JJY ZWZ YZ PG CZL JRK TY SSM WL WD JCW QL XZ JT LJ JL MQW XL SFZ. Performed the experiments: JJY SS SPS ZXW. Analyzed the data: JJY XZ JT CZL MQW SFZ. Wrote the paper: JJY SS SPS. Edited the paper: PG CZL JRK TY SSM JT XZ SFZ.