About the Authors

Lin Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Lin Huang, Miles D. Lange

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Microbiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Miles D. Lange

Contributed equally to this work with: Lin Huang, Miles D. Lange

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Microbiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Yangsheng Yu

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Microbiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Song Li

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Microbiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Kaihong Su

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Microbiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America, The Eppley Cancer Institute, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Zhixin Zhang

zhangj@unmc.edu

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Microbiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America, The Eppley Cancer Institute, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LH MDL KS ZZ. Performed the experiments: LH MDL ZZ. Analyzed the data: LH MDL YY SL ZZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YY SL KS. Wrote the paper: LH MDL YY SL KS ZZ.