About the Authors

Xiaoke Ma

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Long Gao

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Georgios Karamanlidis

Current address: Pfizer Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Mitochondria and Metabolism Center, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Peng Gao

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Chi Fung Lee

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Mitochondria and Metabolism Center, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Lorena Garcia-Menendez

Current address: Pfizer Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Mitochondria and Metabolism Center, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Rong Tian

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Mitochondria and Metabolism Center, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Kai Tan

kai-tan@uiowa.edu

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KT XM RT. Performed the experiments: XM LG GK CFL LGM. Analyzed the data: XM LG KT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GK PG CFL LGM. Wrote the paper: KT XM.