About the Authors

Ming Yue

Current address: Division of Biological Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Boonshoft School of Medicine, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, United States of America

Li Zeng

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, The 1st Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou City, China

Amanpreet Singh

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Boonshoft School of Medicine, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, United States of America

Yongjie Xu

yong-jie.xu@wright.edu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Boonshoft School of Medicine, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MY YJX. Performed the experiments: MY LZ AS YJX. Analyzed the data: MY YJX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MY YJX. Wrote the paper: MY YJX.