About the Authors

Peng Shi

Affiliations Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Department of Neurology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Justin L. Grobe

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Roy J & Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Fiona A. Desland

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Guannan Zhou

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Xiao Z. Shen

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Science, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Zhiying Shan

Affiliations Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Department of Kinesiology and Integrative Physiology, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, United States of America

Meng Liu

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Mohan K. Raizada

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Colin Sumners

csumners@ufl.edu

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PS JG XS ZS CS MR. Performed the experiments: PS FD GZ XS ZS ML. Analyzed the data: PS FD GZ XS ZS ML. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PS JG XS MR CS. Wrote the paper: PS ML CS.