About the Authors

Xiaoli Wei

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaoli Wei, Xue Shi

Affiliation Chemistry Department, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Xue Shi

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaoli Wei, Xue Shi

Affiliation Chemistry Department, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Wei Zhong

Affiliation Center for Translational Biomedical Research and Department of Nutrition, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, North Carolina Research Campus, Kannapolis, North Carolina, United States of America

Yantao Zhao

Affiliation Medicine Department, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Yunan Tang

Affiliation Medicine Department, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Wenlong Sun

Affiliation Chemistry Department, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Xinmin Yin

Affiliation Chemistry Department, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Bogdan Bogdanov

Affiliation Chemistry Department, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Seongho Kim

Affiliation Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Department, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Craig McClain

Affiliations Medicine Department, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America, Pharmacology & Toxicology Department, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America, Alcohol Research Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America, Robley Rex Louisville VAMC, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Zhanxiang Zhou

z_zhou@uncg.edu (ZZ); xiang.zhang@louisville.edu (XZ)

Affiliation Center for Translational Biomedical Research and Department of Nutrition, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, North Carolina Research Campus, Kannapolis, North Carolina, United States of America

Xiang Zhang

z_zhou@uncg.edu (ZZ); xiang.zhang@louisville.edu (XZ)

Affiliation Chemistry Department, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZZ XZ CJM. Performed the experiments: YT XS XY BB WZ YZ. Analyzed the data: XW WS SK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XY BB. Wrote the paper: XW CJM ZZ XZ.