About the Authors

Cao Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Cao Huang, Hongxia Zhou

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Anatomy, and Cell Biology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Hongxia Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Cao Huang, Hongxia Zhou

Hongxia.zhou@jefferson.edu (HZ); xugang.xia@jefferson.edu (X-GX)

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Anatomy, and Cell Biology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jianbin Tong

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Anatomy, and Cell Biology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Han Chen

Affiliation Center for Biotechnology, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

Yong-Jian Liu

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Dian Wang

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Anatomy, and Cell Biology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Xiaotao Wei

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Anatomy, and Cell Biology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Xu-Gang Xia

Hongxia.zhou@jefferson.edu (HZ); xugang.xia@jefferson.edu (X-GX)

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Anatomy, and Cell Biology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CH HZ XGX. Performed the experiments: CH HZ JT HC YJL DW XW XGX. Analyzed the data: CH HZ XGX. Wrote the paper: CH HZ XGX.