About the Authors

Ying Ma

Contributed equally to this work with: Ying Ma, Shu-Qing Wang

Affiliation Tianjin Key Laboratory on Technologies Enabling Development of Clinical Therapeutics and Diagnostics (Theranostics), School of Pharmacy, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China

Shu-Qing Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Ying Ma, Shu-Qing Wang

sqwang@gordonlifescience.org (SQW); wangrunling@tijmu.edu.cn (RLW)

Affiliations Tianjin Key Laboratory on Technologies Enabling Development of Clinical Therapeutics and Diagnostics (Theranostics), School of Pharmacy, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China, Gordon Life Science Institute, San Diego, California, United States of America

Wei-Ren Xu

Affiliation Tianjin Institute of Pharmaceutical Research (TIPR), Tianjin, China

Run-Ling Wang

sqwang@gordonlifescience.org (SQW); wangrunling@tijmu.edu.cn (RLW)

Affiliation Tianjin Key Laboratory on Technologies Enabling Development of Clinical Therapeutics and Diagnostics (Theranostics), School of Pharmacy, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China

Kuo-Chen Chou

Affiliation Gordon Life Science Institute, San Diego, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SQW. Performed the experiments: YM SQW. Analyzed the data: SQW WRX RLW KCC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WRX RLW. Wrote the paper: SQW KCC.