About the Authors

Maojun Yang

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Bing Li

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Chyong-Jy Liu

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Diana R Tomchick

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Mischa Machius

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Josep Rizo

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America , Department of Biochemistry, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Hongtao Yu

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: hongtao.yu@utsouthwestern.edu (HY); xuelian.luo@utsouthwestern.edu (XL)

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Xuelian Luo

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: hongtao.yu@utsouthwestern.edu (HY); xuelian.luo@utsouthwestern.edu (XL)

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

JR, HY, and XL conceived and designed the experiments. MY, BL, CJL, DRT, MM, and XL performed the experiments. MY, DRT, MM, JR, HY, and XL analyzed the data. HY and XL wrote the paper.