About the Authors

Min Wei

Contributed equally to this work with: Min Wei, Paola Fabrizio

Affiliations Andrus Gerontology Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America , Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Paola Fabrizio

Contributed equally to this work with: Min Wei, Paola Fabrizio

Affiliations Andrus Gerontology Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America , Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Jia Hu

Affiliation Andrus Gerontology Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Huanying Ge

Affiliation Department of Computational and Molecular Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Chao Cheng

Affiliation Department of Computational and Molecular Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Lei Li

Affiliation Department of Computational and Molecular Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Valter D Longo

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: vlongo@usc.edu

Affiliations Andrus Gerontology Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America , Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

MW, PF, and VDL conceived and designed the experiments and wrote the paper. MW, PF, JH, and VDL performed the experiments. MW, PF, JH, HG, CC, LL, and VDL analyzed the data. LL and VDL contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools.