About the Authors

Yong Zhao

yongzhao@uic.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Brian Lin

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Robert Darflinger

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Yongkang Zhang

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Mark J. Holterman

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Randal A. Skidgel

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YZ. Performed the experiments: YZ BL RD YZ. Analyzed the data: YZ BL YZ RS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YZ MH. Wrote the paper: YZ MH RS.