About the Authors

Victor J. Pai

Contributed equally to this work with: Victor J. Pai, Bin Wang

Affiliation Laboratory for Lipid Medicine and Technology (LLMT), Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Bin Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Victor J. Pai, Bin Wang

Affiliation Laboratory for Lipid Medicine and Technology (LLMT), Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Xiangyong Li

Affiliation Laboratory for Lipid Medicine and Technology (LLMT), Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Lin Wu

Affiliation Cutaneous Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jing X. Kang

kang.jing@mgh.harvard.edu

Affiliation Laboratory for Lipid Medicine and Technology (LLMT), Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

JXK is the inventor and co-applicant (with Massachusetts General Hospital, a non-profit organization) of a patent relating to compositions and methods for modifying the content of polyunsaturated fatty acids in mammalian cells (PCT/US2002/007649). The authors have no other competing interests to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JXK. Performed the experiments: VJP BW XYL LW. Analyzed the data: XYL VJP BW JXK. Wrote the paper: JXK.