About the Authors

Hui Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Hui Zhou, Zhe Qu

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America, Center for Translational Neuroscience, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Zhe Qu

Contributed equally to this work with: Hui Zhou, Zhe Qu

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America, Center for Translational Neuroscience, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Valeri V. Mossine

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Dineo L. Nknolise

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America, Center for Translational Neuroscience, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Jilong Li

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Informatics Institute, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Zhenzhou Chen

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America, Center for Translational Neuroscience, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Jianlin Cheng

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Informatics Institute, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

C. Michael Greenlief

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Thomas P. Mawhinney

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Paula N. Brown

Affiliation British Columbia Institute of Technology, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Kevin L. Fritsche

Affiliation Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Mark Hannink

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Dennis B. Lubahn

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Grace Y. Sun

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America, Center for Translational Neuroscience, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Zezong Gu

guze@health.missouri.edu

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America, Center for Translational Neuroscience, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America, Harry S. Truman Veterans Hospital, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZG. Performed the experiments: HZ ZQ DLN VVM. Analyzed the data: HZ ZQ JL ZG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GYS JC. Wrote the paper: HZ ZQ ZG ZC VVM JC CMG TPM PNB KLF MH DBL GYS.