About the Authors

Fumin Dong

Affiliation Chronic Disease Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Zhongcheng Mo

Affiliation Chronic Disease Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Walaa Eid

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology & Immunology, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Kevin C. Courtney

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology & Immunology, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Xiaohui Zha

xzha@ohri.ca

Affiliations Chronic Disease Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology & Immunology, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FD XZ. Performed the experiments: FD ZM WE KC. Analyzed the data: FD ZM KC XZ. Wrote the paper: FD KC XZ.