About the Authors

Kun Xie

Affiliations Brain and Behavior Discovery Institute and Department of Neurology, Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America, Banna Biomedical Research Institute, Xi-Shuang-Ban-Na Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China

Hui Kuang

Affiliations Brain and Behavior Discovery Institute and Department of Neurology, Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America, Banna Biomedical Research Institute, Xi-Shuang-Ban-Na Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China

Joe Z. Tsien

jtsien@gru.edu

Affiliation Brain and Behavior Discovery Institute and Department of Neurology, Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JZT KX HK. Performed the experiments: KX. Analyzed the data: KX HK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KX HK. Wrote the paper: JZT KX.