About the Authors

Qian Zhang

Affiliation From the Department of Biomedical Sciences, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Huizhan Liu

Affiliation From the Department of Biomedical Sciences, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

JoAnn McGee

Affiliation Boys Town National Research Hospital, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Edward J. Walsh

Affiliation Boys Town National Research Hospital, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Garrett A. Soukup

GarrettSoukup@creighton.edu (GS) (GS); hed@creighton.edu (DH) (DH)

Affiliation From the Department of Biomedical Sciences, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

David Z. Z. He

GarrettSoukup@creighton.edu (GS) (GS); hed@creighton.edu (DH) (DH)

Affiliation From the Department of Biomedical Sciences, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DH QZ GS. Performed the experiments: QZ HL. Analyzed the data: QZ JM EW GS DH. Wrote the paper: QZ DH.