About the Authors

Yang Li

Affiliation Department of Nutrition, the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Yan Zhang

Affiliation Department of Nutrition, the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Rui Li

Affiliation Department of Nutrition, the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Wei Chen

Affiliation Department of Nutrition, the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Meredith Howell

Affiliation Department of Nutrition, the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Rui Zhang

Affiliation Department of Nutrition, the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Guoxun Chen

gchen6@utk.edu

Affiliation Department of Nutrition, the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YL GC. Performed the experiments: YL YZ RL WC MH RZ GC. Analyzed the data: YL GC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YL YZ RL WC MH RZ GC. Wrote the paper: YL GC.