About the Authors

Runping Liu

Affiliations Jiangsu Center for Drug Screening, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, 210009, China, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, 23298, United States of America

Luyong Zhang

hzhou@vcu.edu (HZ); lyzhang@cpu.edu.cn (LZ)

Affiliation Jiangsu Center for Drug Screening, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, 210009, China

Jing Yang

Affiliations Jiangsu Center for Drug Screening, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, 210009, China, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, 23298, United States of America

Xiaoxuan Zhang

Affiliations Jiangsu Center for Drug Screening, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, 210009, China, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, 23298, United States of America

Ross Mikkelsen

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, 23298, United States of America

Shiyu Song

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, 23298, United States of America

Huiping Zhou

hzhou@vcu.edu (HZ); lyzhang@cpu.edu.cn (LZ)

Affiliations Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, 23298, United States of America, McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Richmond, VA, 23298, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LZ SS HZ. Performed the experiments: RL XZ JY RM. Analyzed the data: RL XZ JY HZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SS RM HZ. Wrote the paper: RL HZ.