About the Authors

Jun Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Jun Liu, Ming Gao

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Cell Systems & Anatomy, UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Ming Gao

Contributed equally to this work with: Jun Liu, Ming Gao

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Cell Systems & Anatomy, UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Michael Nipper

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cell Systems & Anatomy, UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Janice Deng

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Cell Systems & Anatomy, UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Francis E. Sharkey

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Pathology, UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Randy L. Johnson

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology, Division of Basic Science Research, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Howard C. Crawford

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology & Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Yidong Chen

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology Biostatistics, UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Pei Wang

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

wangp3@uthscsa.edu

Affiliation Department of Cell Systems & Anatomy, UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.