About the Authors

Xiaojun Ma

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaojun Ma, Ligen Lin

Affiliations Division of Endocrinology, Department of Internal Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China, USDA/ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Ligen Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaojun Ma, Ligen Lin

Affiliation USDA/ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Guijun Qin

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology, Department of Internal Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China

Xinping Lu

Affiliation Digestive Disease Branch, National Institutes of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Marta Fiorotto

Affiliation USDA/ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Vishwa D. Dixit

Affiliation Laboratory of Neuroendocrine-Immunology, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University System, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Yuxiang Sun

yuxiangs@bcm.edu

Affiliations USDA/ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Huffington Center on Aging, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YS VDD. Performed the experiments: XM LL. Analyzed the data: XM LL MF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GQ XL. Wrote the paper: XM LL MF YS.