About the Authors

Ki Sung Kang

Contributed equally to this work with: Ki Sung Kang, Pan Wang

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Pan Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Ki Sung Kang, Pan Wang

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Noriko Yamabe

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Masayuki Fukui

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Taylor Jay

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Bao Ting Zhu

BTZhu@kumc.edu

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KSK PW BTZ. Performed the experiments: KSK PW NY MF TJ. Analyzed the data: KSK PW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MF. Wrote the paper: KSK PW BTZ.