About the Authors

Qing Chang

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Wenxue Tang

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Shoeb Ahmad

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Binfei Zhou

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Xi Lin

xlin2@emory.edu.

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Cell Biology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QC XL. Performed the experiments: QC WT SA BZ XL. Analyzed the data: QC WT BZ XL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XL. Wrote the paper: QC SA XL.